Early one morning, he was allowed to visit an Amsterdam museum while it was still closed.
"They are of key importance for our understanding of Van Gogh's views and his development as a burgeoning artist, " said the Amsterdam museum.
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For the next five years, two spectacular group portraits, one by Flinck and one by van der Helst, both titled "Governors of the Kloveniersdoelen, " will be on view at the National Gallery, on loan from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and the Amsterdam Museum, respectively.
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After the exhibition, the painting was sent to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam for verification.
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"There were so many questions around this painting, " explained Teio Meedendorp, researcher at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
The exhibition Van Gogh and Gauguin is at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from 9 February - 2 June 2002.
And for those who can't wait, an exhibition entitled " Van Gogh Up Close" opens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in February, while the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is currently focusing on Van Gogh's studio practice.
The Dutch, English and French editions are the joint project of the Huygens Institute and Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum.
It was the biggest art theft in the Netherlands since 20 works disappeared from Amsterdam's Van Gogh museum in 1991.
It is the biggest art theft in the Netherlands since 20 paintings were stolen from Amsterdam's Van Gogh museum in 1991.
Experts at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum have long wondered whether an 1889 drawing entitled Wild Vegetation was a copy of a completed painting.
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The squad met Queen Beatrix at her palace in The Hague in the morning, followed by a boat tour through Amsterdam's canals and a party in the city's Museum Square.
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