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3 days agoFraming Van Gogh: why the artist did not want to surround his works with gold
With loans from nearly 50 museums and private collections, nearly all the paintings were displayed in ornate gilded frames-which Van Gogh disliked. Van Gogh's The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy) (December 1889) in a typical example of a French Baroque gilded frame-it has been on the painting since it was sold by the dealer Paul Rosenberg in 1947 Cleveland Museum of Art (photograph The Art Newspaper)
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