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Van Gogh Kept in Mellon Home for 58 Years Goes on Display at National Gallery

December 20, 2013 by Marion Maneker

van Gogh, Green Wheat Fields, Auvers

Paul Mellon kept this van Gogh hidden away at his country home in Virginia for 58 years but it will now go on display at the National Gallery:

The painting has only been exhibited once before in the United States in a show devoted to the Mellon collection in 1966 at the National Gallery of Art. The painting spent its early years with Van Gogh’s brother Theo and then was traded in Germany. It was shown in a major exhibition in Cologne, Germany, in 1912 and then in Berlin. But it has mostly been out of view since the 1930s, said French paintings curator Mary Morton.

Van Gogh painting joins collection at the National Gallery of Art (CTV News)

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