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Van Gogh’s Gordina—the Mona Lisa of Brabant—bought by a Dutch museum for over £7m. We name the London collector who parted with the painting. Martin Bailey. 17 October 2024. Share.
Vincent van Gogh’s 'Head of a Woman ... Science, before embarking on a fundraising campaign to raise the last €2.6 million to pay for what they dubbed “the Mona Lisa of Brabant”. ...
The world's most famous paintings: 'Mona Lisa,' 'Starry Night' and more ... Van Gogh was not well-known for the entirety of his artistic career and committed suicide, destitute, at 37.
A Just Stop Oil activist is arrested after Van Gogh's Sunflowers painting had soup thrown on it at the National Portrait Gallery on October 14, 2022, in London, England.
We speak of her as the Mona Lisa of Brabant.” During Van Gogh’s stay in Nuenen there were scurrilous rumours that he had got Gordina pregnant. Grandjean rejects this suggestion, ...
Recent protests have seen cake smushed on the Mona Lisa, tomato soup tossed on Van Gogh's sunflowers, and mashed potatoes flung at a Monet.
Is smearing food on the ‘Mona Lisa’ a productive form of climate change protest? Two protesters from the group Just Stop Oil stand before Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “Sunflowers” at the ...
The van Gogh and Monet paintings targeted in recent climate protests were unharmed. But a debate about tactics rages. By Cara Buckley First it was cake smeared on the Mona Lisa in Paris, then ...
Dutch museum buys Van Gogh painting nicknamed the “Mona Lisa of Brabant” for over €8.5 million Vincent van Gogh, Kop van een vrouw (Gordina de Groot) (Head of a Woman [Gordina de Groot]), 1885.