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Teio Meedendorp, Senior Researcher at the Van Gogh Museum: ‘The two drawings are clearly from the same hand and stylistically, are reminiscent of Van Gogh’s model drawings from early 1886, which he initially created in Antwerp and subsequently in Paris, in Cormon’s studio. The materials used are also identical and the subjects can be linked to paintings created by Van Gogh on Montmartre in spring and early summer. Within Van Gogh’s drawn oeuvre, these two striking works aptly illustrate how the artist was still very much seeking his own style in the winter/spring 1886 period. They demonstrate a phase in Van Gogh’s learning process – in Paris, he rediscovered himself, but here, he was still following the traditional artistic path’. The work at the Van Gogh Museum was previously rejected, partly due to a lack of material for comparison; the connection with studies produced at Cormon’s studio was not made, as the general assumption was that it was not until autumn 1886 that Van Gogh visited his studio.
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