Amsterdam - Van Gogh Museum

Vincent van Gogh - Sunflowers (F458)

 

Vincent van Gogh - Fünfzehn Sonnenblumen

 

The Van Gogh Museum (Dutch pronunciation: [vɑŋˈɣɔx mʏˌzeːjʏm]) is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opened on 2 June 1973, and its buildings were designed by Gerrit Rietveld and Kisho Kurokawa.

 

The museum contains the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world. In 2017, the museum had 2.3 million visitors and was the most-visited museum in the Netherlands, and the 23rd-most-visited art museum in the world. In 2019, the Van Gogh Museum launched the Meet Vincent Van Gogh Experience, a technology-driven "immersive exhibition" on Van Gogh's life and works, which has toured globally.

 

History

 

Unsold works

 

Upon Vincent van Gogh's death in 1890, his work not sold fell into the possession of his brother Theo. Theo died six months after Vincent, leaving the work in the possession of his widow, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger. Selling many of Vincent's paintings with the ambition of spreading knowledge of his artwork, Johanna maintained a private collection of his works. The collection was inherited by her son Vincent Willem van Gogh in 1925, eventually loaned to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, where it was displayed for many years, and was transferred to the state-initiated Vincent van Gogh Foundation in 1962. In the years following her husband’s death, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger organized exhibitions of Vincent van Gogh's work in the Netherlands and abroad, significantly contributing to his posthumous recognition.

 

Dedicated museum

 

Design for a Van Gogh Museum was commissioned by the Dutch government in 1963 to Dutch architect and furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld. Rietveld died a year later, and the building was not completed until 1973, when the museum opened its doors. In 1998 and 1999, the building was renovated by the Dutch architect Martien van Goor, and an exhibition wing by the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa was added. In late 2012, the museum was closed for renovations for six months. During this period, 75 works from the collection were shown in the H'ART Museum.

 

On 9 September 2013, the museum unveiled a long-lost Van Gogh painting that spent years in a Norwegian attic believed to be by another painter. It is the first full-size canvas by him discovered since 1928. Sunset at Montmajour depicts trees, bushes and sky, painted with Van Gogh's familiar thick brush strokes. It can be dated to the exact day it was painted because he described it in a letter to his brother, Theo, and said he painted it the previous day 4 July 1888.

 

Art thefts

 

In 1991, twenty paintings were stolen from the museum, among them Van Gogh's early painting The Potato Eaters. Although the thieves escaped from the building, 35 minutes later all stolen paintings were recovered from an abandoned car. Three paintings – Wheatfield with Crows, Still Life with Bible, and Still Life with Fruit – were severely torn during the theft. Four men, including two museum guards, were convicted for the theft and given six or seven-year sentences. It is considered to be the largest art theft in the Netherlands since the Second World War.

 

In 2002, two paintings were stolen from the museum, Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen and View of the Sea at Scheveningen. Two Dutchmen were convicted for the theft to four-and-a-half-year sentences, but the paintings were not immediately recovered. The museum offered a reward of €100,000 for information leading to the recovery of the paintings. The FBI Art Crime Team listed the robbery on their Top Ten Art Crimes list, and estimates the combined value of the paintings at US$30 million. In September 2016, both paintings were discovered by the Guardia di Finanza in Castellammare di Stabia, Italy in a villa belonging to the Camorra drug trafficker Raffaele Imperiale. The two artworks were found in a "relatively good state", according to the Van Gogh Museum.

 

Buildings

 

The museum is situated at the Museumplein in Amsterdam-Zuid, on the Paulus Potterstraat 7, between the Stedelijk Museum and the Rijksmuseum, and consists of two buildings, the Rietveld building, designed by Gerrit Rietveld, and the Kurokawa wing, designed by Kisho Kurokawa. Museum offices are housed on Stadhouderskade 55 in Amsterdam-Zuid. Depending on the season, sunflowers are displayed outside the entrance to the museum.

 

Rietveld building

 

The Rietveld building is the main structure and houses the permanent collection. It has a rectangular floor plan and is four stories high. On the ground floor are a shop, a café, and an introductory exhibition. The first floor shows the works of Van Gogh grouped chronologically. The second floor gives information about the restoration of paintings and has a space for minor temporary exhibitions. The third floor shows paintings of Van Gogh's contemporaries in relationship to the work of Van Gogh himself.

 

Kurokawa wing

 

The Kurokawa wing is used for major temporary exhibitions. It has an oval floor plan and is three stories high. The entrance to the Kurokawa wing is via a tunnel from the Rietveld building.

 

Collection

 

Works by Vincent van Gogh

 

The museum houses the largest Van Gogh collection in the world, with 200 paintings, 400 drawings, and 700 letters by the artist.

 

The main exhibition chronicles the various phases of Van Gogh's artistic life.

 

His selected works from Nuenen (1880–1885):

Avenue of Poplars in Autumn (1884)

The Potato Eaters (1885)

 

His selected works from Antwerp (1886):

Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette (1886)

 

His selected works from Paris (1886–1888):

Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin (1887)

Wheat Field with a Lark (1887)

View of Paris from Vincent's Room in the Rue Lepic (1887)

 

His selected works from Arles (1888–1889):

The Zouave (1888)

Bedroom in Arles (1888)

The Yellow House (1888)

Sunflowers (1889)

 

His selected works from Saint-Rémy (1889–1890):

Almond Blossoms (1890)

 

And his selected works from Auvers-sur-Oise (1890):

Wheatfield with Crows (1890)

The permanent collection also includes nine of the artist's self-portraits and some of his earliest paintings dating back to 1882.

 

A newly discovered work has temporarily gone on display. Van Gogh created three unknown sketches of peasants, which were then used as a single bookmark. Stylistically, they can be dated to autumn 1881.

 

Works by contemporaries

 

The museum also features notable artworks by Van Gogh's contemporaries in the Impressionist and post-Impressionist movements and holds extensive exhibitions on various subjects from 19th Century art history.

 

The museum has sculptures by Auguste Rodin and Jules Dalou, and paintings by John Russell, Émile Bernard, Maurice Denis, Kees van Dongen, Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

 

Meet Vincent Van Gogh Experience

 

The Van Gogh Museum manages an official Meet Vincent Van Gogh Experience, described as a travelling "3D immersive exhibition" using technology and computer audio-visual techniques to cover the story of Van Gogh's life through images of his works. The first "experience" was in 2016 in Beijing, and it has since been toured globally to Europe, Asia and North America.

 

The Meet Van Gogh Experience does not present original artworks, as they are too fragile to travel. The "experience" was designed in collaboration with the London-based museum design consultancy, Event Communications (who designed Titanic Belfast), and it won a 2017 THEA award in the category of Immersive Museum Exhibit: Touring.

 

Visitors

 

The Van Gogh Museum, which is a national museum (Dutch: rijksmuseum), is a foundation (Dutch: stichting).

 

Axel Rüger, who had been the museum director since 2006, left the museum in 2019 to become secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The Van Gogh Museum announced that Managing Director Adriaan Dönszelmann would act as general director until a new director is appointed.

 

Since 2000, the museum had between 1.2 and 1.9 million visitors per year. From 2010 to 2012, it was the most visited museum in the Netherlands. In 2015, the museum had 1.9 million visitors, it was the 2nd most visited museum in the Netherlands, after the Rijksmuseum, and the 31st most visited art museum in the world.

 

The Van Gogh Museum is a member of the national Museumvereniging (Museum Association).

 

(Wikipedia)

 

Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) is the title of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, made a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. About eight months later, van Gogh hoped to welcome and impress Gauguin again with Sunflowers, now part of the painted Décoration for the Yellow House that he prepared for the guestroom of his home in Arles, where Gauguin was supposed to stay.

 

The Paris Sunflowers

 

Little is known of van Gogh's activities during the two years he lived with his brother, Theo, in Paris, 1886–1888. The fact that he had painted Sunflowers already is only revealed in the spring of 1889, when Gauguin claimed one of the Arles versions in exchange for studies he had left behind after leaving Arles for Paris. Van Gogh was upset and replied that Gauguin had absolutely no right to make this request: "I am definitely keeping my sunflowers in question. He has two of them already, let that hold him. And if he is not satisfied with the exchange he has made with me, he can take back his little Martinique canvas, and his self-portrait sent to me from Brittany, at the same time giving me back both my portrait and the two sunflower canvases which he has taken to Paris. So if he ever broaches this subject again, I've told you just how matters stand."

 

The two Sunflowers in question show two buttons each; one of them was preceded by a small study, and a fourth large canvas combines both compositions.

 

These were van Gogh's first paintings with "nothing but sunflowers"—yet, he had already included sunflowers in still life and landscape earlier.

 

The Arles Sunflowers

 

In a letter to Theo dating from 21 or 22 August 1888, van Gogh wrote: "I'm painting with the gusto of a Marseillais eating bouillabaisse, which won’t surprise you when it's a question of painting large sunflowers." At the time, he was working on three paintings simultaneously and intended to do more, as he explained to his brother: "in the hope of living in a studio of our own with Gauguin, I'd like to do a decoration for the studio. Nothing but large sunflowers".

 

Leaving aside the first two versions, all Arlesian Sunflowers are painted on size 30 canvases.

 

he initial versions, August 1888

 

The versions of the paintings provided by van Gogh in his announcement of his sunflower series do not precisely match every detail supplied by him. The first version differs in size, is painted on a size 20 canvas—not on a size 15 canvas as indicated—and all the others differ in the number of flowers depicted from van Gogh's announcement. The second was evidently enlarged and the initial composition altered by insertion of the two flowers lying in the foreground, center and right. Neither the third nor the fourth shows the dozen or 14 flowers indicated by the artist, but more—fifteen or sixteen. These alterations are executed wet-in-wet and therefore considered genuine rework—even the more so as they are copied to the repetitions of January 1889; there is no longer a trace of later alterations, at least in this aspect.

 

The fourth version of the painting was attacked on 14 October 2022 by environmental activists from the Just Stop Oil campaign, who threw tomato soup at it, while it was on display at National Gallery in London, before gluing their hands to the wall. The painting was covered with plexiglass, and it was unharmed with the exception of minor damage to the frame. The two activists were arrested and the painting was put back on display later that day. The two activists were found guilty of criminal damage in July 2024, and sentenced in September to 20 and 24 months in prison, respectively.

 

Both repetitions of the 4th version are no longer in their original state. In the Amsterdam version, a strip of wood was added at the top—probably by van Gogh himself. The Tokyo version, however, was enlarged on all sides with strips of canvas, which were added at a later time—presumably by the first owner, Émile Schuffenecker. The series is perhaps van Gogh's best known and most widely reproduced. In the 2000s, debate arose regarding the authenticity of one of the paintings, and it has been suggested that this version may have been the work of Émile Schuffenecker or of Paul Gauguin. Most experts, however, conclude that the work is genuine.

 

The Berceuse-Triptych

 

In January 1889, when Vincent had just finished the first repetitions of the Berceuse and the Sunflowers pendants, he told Theo: "I picture to myself these same canvases between those of the sunflowers, which would thus form torches or candelabra beside them, the same size, and so the whole would be composed of seven or nine canvases."

 

A definite hint for the arrangement of the triptych is supplied by van Gogh's sketch in a letter of July 1889.

 

Later that year, Vincent selected both versions for his display at Les XX, 1890.[citation needed]

 

The triptych was displayed as Vincent intended at the National Gallery in London in 2024, with the London and Philadelphia versions flanking the Boston Berceuse. The two Sunflowers paintings were again attacked by Just Stop Oil protestors.

 

Sunflowers, friendship and gratitude

 

Van Gogh began painting in late summer of 1888 and continued into the following year. One went to decorate his friend Paul Gauguin's bedroom. The paintings show sunflowers in all stages of life, from full bloom to withering. The paintings were considered innovative for their use of the yellow spectrum, partly because newly invented pigments made new colors possible.

 

In a letter to Theo, Vincent wrote:

 

"It's a type of painting that changes its aspect a little, which grows in richness the more you look at it. Besides, you know that Gauguin likes them extraordinarily. He said to me about them, among other things: ‘that — ... that's... the flower’. You know that Jeannin has the peony, Quost has the hollyhock, but I have the sunflower, in a way."

 

Subsequent history

 

On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate Yasuo Goto paid the equivalent of US$39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London, at the time a record-setting amount for a work of art. The price was over three times the previous record of about $12 million paid for Andrea Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi in 1985. The record was broken a few months later with the purchase of another van Gogh, Irises, by Alan Bond for $53.9 million at Sotheby's, New York on November 11, 1987.

 

While it is uncertain whether Yasuo Goto bought the painting himself or on behalf of his company, the Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Japan, the painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. After the purchase, a controversy arose whether this is a genuine van Gogh or an Émile Schuffenecker forgery.

 

Provenances

 

Two Paris versions van Gogh exchanged with Gauguin in December 1887 or January 1888, were both sold to Ambroise Vollard: one in January 1895 and the other in April 1896. The first canvas resided for a short time with Félix Roux, but was reacquired by Vollard and sold to Degas, then from his estate to Rosenberg, then to Hahnloser and bequested to the Kunstmuseum Bern. The second was acquired by the Dutch collector Hoogendijk at the sale of his collection by Kann, who ceded the painting to Richard Bühler and then via Thannhauser to the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

 

Two of van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings never left the artist's estate: the study for one of the Paris versions (F377) and the repetition of fourth version (F458). Both are in the possession of the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, established 1962 by Vincent Willem van Gogh, the artist's nephew, and on permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

 

Five other versions are recorded in the van Gogh estate papers:

 

the final Paris version (F.452) in the artist's estate was sold 1909 via C. M. van Gogh, The Hague (J. H. de Bois) to Kröller-Müller

(F457) sold 1894 to Émile Schuffenecker. (Tokyo version).

(F456) sold 1905 via Paul Cassirer to Hugo von Tschudi. (Munich version).

(F459) sold 1908 C. M. van Gogh (J. H. de Bois), The Hague to Fritz Meyer-Fierz, Zürich (destroyed by U.S. air raid in Japan on 6 August 1945).

(F454) sold 1924 via Ernest Brown & Phillips (The Leicester Galleries) to the Tate Gallery; since on permanent loan to the National Gallery, London. (London version).

Two Arles versions left the artist's estate unrecorded:

 

(F453) (private collection). Sold 1891 to Octave Mirbeau, Paris, (via Tanguy, Paris) for £12 (about £1,300 in 2013 £). Sold 1996 to a private collector for an undisclosed sum.

(F455) (Philadelphia version).

 

(Wikipedia)

 

Das Van Gogh Museum ist ein Kunstmuseum am Museumplein im Amsterdamer Stadtteil Oud-Zuid, Stadtbezirk Amsterdam-Zuid, das am 2. Juni 1973 eröffnet wurde. Es beherbergt die größte Sammlung mit Werken des niederländischen Malers Vincent van Gogh. Seit dem 1. Mai 2013 ist das Museum nach Umbau und einem vorübergehenden Umzug in ein anderes Gebäude wieder zugänglich. 2016 hatte das Haus 2.076.526 Besucher und gehört damit zu den meistbesuchten Kunstmuseen der Welt.

 

Geschichte

 

Als van Gogh 1890 mit 37 Jahren starb, hinterließ er mit etwa 900 Gemälden und 1.100 Zeichnungen ein umfangreiches Werk. Hiervon hatte er nur wenig verkauft und einige Arbeiten an Freunde verschenkt. Seinen Nachlass erbte sein jüngerer Bruder, der Kunsthändler Theo van Gogh. Dieser hatte neben den Werken von Vincent auch Arbeiten von Künstlern wie Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Léon Lhermitte und Jean-François Millet gesammelt. Nachdem Theo bereits ein Jahr nach seinem Bruder verstarb, verwaltete seine Witwe Johanna van Gogh-Bonger das Erbe. Sie kehrte in die Niederlande zurück und organisierte erste Ausstellungen mit Werken Vincent van Goghs und trug wesentlich dazu bei, den Künstler einer größeren Öffentlichkeit bekannt zu machen. 1905 fand die erste große Ausstellung im Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam statt, während sich das Rijksmuseum geweigert hatte, Leihgaben mit van Goghs Werken anzunehmen. Da van Gogh häufig mehrere Versionen des gleichen Themas gemalt hatte, konnte Johanna van Gogh einzelne Bilder der Sammlung verkaufen, ohne den Gesamteindruck wesentlich zu schmälern. Sie war es auch, die frühzeitig die Veröffentlichung der Briefe Vincent van Goghs in mehreren Sprachen vorantrieb. Nach ihrem Tod 1925 erbte ihr Sohn, der Ingenieur Vincent Willem van Gogh (1890–1978) die Sammlung. Er stellte verschiedenen Museen Werke als Leihgabe zur Verfügung, bevor er 1960 die Vincent van Gogh Stiftung gründete und ihr die Sammlung übergab. Zunächst gelangten die Bilder als Dauerausstellung ins Amsterdamer Stedelijk Museum, bevor 1973 das Van Gogh Museum eröffnet werden konnte.

 

1991 war das Van Gogh Museum Schauplatz eines aufsehenerregenden Kunstraubs, bei dem 20 Gemälde im Wert von mehreren Hundert Millionen Euro entwendet wurden. Dank einer Reifenpanne des Fluchtfahrzeugs konnten die Gemälde aber kurz nach der Entdeckung des Raubs von der Polizei sichergestellt werden. 2002 wurden bei einem Einbruch die Van-Gogh-Gemälde Stürmische See bei Scheveningen und Die Reformierte Kirche in Nuenen gestohlen, sie wurden 2016 wieder aufgefunden. Die im Haus eines neapolitanischen Drogenbarons sichergestellten Malereien konnten erst mit Zustimmung der Italienischen Justiz im Januar 2017 nach Amsterdam zurückkehren.

 

Gebäude

 

Das Museum besteht aus zwei Gebäuden. Der ursprüngliche Bau geht auf einen Entwurf von Gerrit Rietveld zurück. Nach seinem Tod im Jahr 1964 wurde der Bau von seinen Partnern J. van Dillen und J. van Tricht fortgeführt und nach Fertigstellung am 2. Juni 1973 eingeweiht. In diesem Gebäude ist heute die ständige Sammlung untergebracht. 1999 wurde ein Ergänzungsbau für Sonderausstellungen eingeweiht, der vom japanischen Architekten Kishō Kurokawa in Form einer Ellipse entworfen wurde. 2015 wurde der Ausstellungsbau durch einen neuen, großflächig verglasten Eingangsbereich ergänzt, dessen Entwurf ebenfalls aus dem Büro des 2007 verstorbenen Kurokawa stammt. Beide Gebäude sind durch einen unterirdischen Übergang miteinander verbunden.

 

Sammlung

 

Das Museum besitzt über 200 Gemälde Vincent van Goghs aus allen Schaffensperioden und 400 seiner Zeichnungen. Zu den ausgestellten Hauptwerken gehören Die Kartoffelesser, Das Schlafzimmer in Arles und eine Version der Sonnenblumen. Außerdem bewahrt das Museum den Großteil der Briefe Vincent van Goghs auf. Auch findet sich in der Sammlung die Suizidwaffe van Goghs, eine verrostete Lefaucheux à broche. Die von Theo van Gogh begonnene Sammlung mit Werken anderer Künstler des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde mit Stiftungsgeldern kontinuierlich ausgebaut, sodass das Museum heute auch Werke von Alma-Tadema, Bernard, Boulanger, Breton, Caillebotte, Courbet, Couture, Daubigny, Denis, Gauguin, Israëls, Jongkind, Manet, Mauve, Millet, Monet, Munch, Pissarro, Puvis de Chavannes, Redon, Seurat, Signac, Toulouse-Lautrec, van Dongen und von Stuck besitzt.

 

(Wikipedia)

 

Die Bilder mit den Titeln Drei Sonnenblumen, Fünf Sonnenblumen, Zwölf Sonnenblumen (in einer Vase) und Fünfzehn Sonnenblumen sind eine Serie von sieben Gemälden, die von August 1888 bis Januar 1889 von Vincent van Gogh in Arles (Südfrankreich) gemalt wurden.

 

Entstehung

 

Die Serie entstand in der Vorbereitung auf die Ankunft seiner Malerkollegen Paul Gauguin und Emile Bernard. Vincent hoffte, mit ihnen und weiteren Künstlern eine Malerkolonie in der Provence gründen zu können. In seinem Brief 526 an den Bruder Theo schrieb Vincent: „In der Hoffnung, dass ich mit Gauguin in unserem eigenen Atelier wohnen werde, will ich eine Reihe von Bildern dafür machen. Weiter nichts als lauter große Sonnenblumen. […] Wenn ich also diesen Plan ausführe, wird es ein Dutzend Bilder geben. Das Ganze eine Symphonie in Blau und Gelb. Ich arbeite jeden Morgen von Sonnenaufgang an. Denn die Blumen verwelken schnell, und das Ganze muss in einem Zug gemalt werden.“

 

Van Gogh ergänzte die Sonnenblumenserie im Januar 1889 durch drei weitere Bilder (Zwei Bilder mit dem Titel Fünfzehn Sonnenblumen in einer Vase und Zwölf Sonnenblumen in einer Vase).

 

Veränderung des Farbtons

 

Das leuchtende Chromgelb der gemalten Sonnenblumen wird mit der Zeit bräunlicher. Das Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron Desy in Hamburg fand heraus, dass dies eine Reaktion des gelben Pigments (Blei(II)-chromat) auf UV-Licht ist.

 

Verbleib der einzelnen Gemälde

 

1912 erwarb die Neue Pinakothek München im Rahmen der Tschudi-Spende aus der Reihe das Bild mit zwölf Sonnenblumen aus dem Jahr 1888.

 

Am 30. März 1987 ersteigerte Yasuo Gotō (後藤 康男; 1923–2002) der japanischen Versicherungsgesellschaft Yasuda (heute: Songai Hoken Japan) bei Christie’s in London eines der späteren Bilder aus der Sonnenblumenserie zum damaligen Rekordpreis von 24,75 Millionen englische Pfund. Das Bild hängt heute im Sompo Museum of Art in Tokio. Nach der Auktion entwickelte sich eine Kontroverse um die Echtheit des Bildes. Die Kunsthistorikerin Geraldine Norman vertrat dabei die These, dass es sich bei dem Gemälde um eine Fälschung des Malers Émile Schuffenecker handelt, der 1901 mit der Restaurierung des Originals betraut worden war. Dieser Ansicht ist von verschiedenen Seiten widersprochen worden. In den offiziellen Ergebnislisten der Auktionshäuser wird dieses Bild jedoch nicht mehr als Originalgemälde van Goghs geführt.

 

Beschädigungen 2022 und 2024

 

Am 14. Oktober 2022 übergossen zwei Frauen das in der National Gallery in London ausgestellte Gemälde Nr. 3 der Sonnenblumen-Serie mit Tomatensuppe. In Zusammenhang mit der Aktion forderte die Umweltgruppe Just Stop Oil die britische Regierung dazu auf, alle neuen Öl- und Gasprojekte aufzugeben. Die National Gallery teilte mit, dass durch die Aktion kleinere Schäden am Rahmen entstanden seien; das Bild selbst, das hinter einer Glasscheibe gezeigt wird, sei nicht beschädigt worden. Im Juli 2024 verurteilte der Londoner Southwark Crown Court beide Frauen wegen Sachbeschädigung. Bei der Tat gegen das Gemälde, dessen Wert auf bis zu 72,5 Millionen Pfund Sterling geschätzt wird, entstand laut Staatsanwaltschaft an dem Rahmen aus dem 17. Jahrhundert durch die Tomatensuppe ein Schaden von möglicherweise bis zu 10.000 Pfund Sterling. Ende September 2024 wurde das Strafmaß von zwei Jahren respektive zwanzig Monaten Haft für die beiden Frauen verkündet. Wenige Stunden nach der Gerichtsentscheidung bewarfen als Reaktion darauf erneut Aktivisten von Just Stop Oil in der National Gallery dasselbe Gemälde sowie das als Leihgabe des Philadelphia Museum of Art sich in der Ausstellung befindliche Exemplar Zwölf Sonnenblumen von 1889 mit Suppe.

 

Trivia

 

Der japanische Animationsfilm Die Sonnenblumen des Infernos aus der Detektiv-Conan-Reihe dreht sich inhaltlich um die Sonnenblumen-Bilder van Goghs. Teil der Handlung ist eine Version des Motivs, das sich in Japan befindet.

 

(Wikipedia)

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