The painting is on loan for an exhibition that opens this weekend in the Provençal city where the painter became obsessed with the night sky and eventually descended into madness
“It has been reproduced so many times, it is just amazing to see the original – and to do so here just a few metres from where Van Gogh painted it is a dream.”The exhibition, which runs until September, marks the 10th anniversary of the foundation’s opening and is among national and international events marking the 150th anniversary of the impressionist movement.
A month later, fellow artist Paul Gauguin moved into Van Gogh’s Arles home, called the Yellow House. The pair painted prodigiously but also drank and argued, often about domestic matters, but also about art. Studio Drift’s co-founder, Ralph Nauta, said: “We were asked to think about our relationship with Van Gogh for this performance so we studied the painting and many of his other works and tried to recreate his signature and the beautiful elegance of the lines he worked with. It’s mind-boggling what he achieved in his time.