"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"."
"The Philadelphia museum has its own Sunflowers (January 1889), one with a . The curator's coup, however, is to secure the loan of the greatest of the Arles Sunflowers, the original version with a (August 1888), which is at London's National Gallery. Since its acquisition in 1924, the London painting has only gone on loan abroad four times, but will now make its way to the US next year."
"At the London show, the two Sunflowers paintings were hung in an arrangement which Van Gogh himself had envisaged: in a "triptych" with La Berceuse ( The Lullaby) (January 1889), a portrait of his friend Augustine Roulin holding the cord of a rocking cradle. Vincent once made a sketch of the triptych in a letter to his brother Theo, though it has disappeared. However, a 1914 photograph of the drawing survives."
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will host Van Gogh's Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow from 6 June to 11 October 2026, presenting two Sunflower paintings. The museum will show its own Sunflowers (January 1889) alongside the original Arles Sunflowers (August 1888) on loan from London's National Gallery. The London painting has rarely left since its 1924 acquisition, having gone on foreign loan only four times prior to this. Philadelphia previously lent its Sunflowers to the National Gallery's Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers exhibition (14 September 2024–19 January 2025), and London's reciprocal loan follows that exchange. The two Sunflowers were displayed in London in the triptych arrangement Van Gogh sketched alongside La Berceuse; a 1914 photograph of that sketch survives.
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