The exhibition gives the impression of a painter who was constantly getting better at his craft, even after the age where one might think he was past his prime.

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The still lifes are a warm-up for the exhibition's main event: four large galleries of landscapes, the best of which give a splendid impression of Van Gogh's mercurial, impassioned genius.

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