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#philadelphia-museum-of-art

Although not yet publicly announced, The Art Newspaper can reveal that the Philadelphia Art Museum will next year hold an exhibition entitled Van Gogh's Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow (6 June-11 October 2026). According to a museum spokesperson, the show "will bring together two Sunflower paintings, considering how the artist used colour and brushwork to different expressive effects".

For many years, the paintings one of which is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, while the other hangs at Kenwood were believed to have been painted by the Dutch master. But in the 1920s, the consensus shifted. The Kenwood painting, which is in much better condition and crucially is signed by the artist, was the original Vermeer, experts agreed.