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Snug as a bug: conservation work reveals beetle in Gauguin cat painting

The painting, which has just gone on display at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, was previously hidden away in a private collection for over a century

Martin Bailey
29 November 2024
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Van Gogh’s Portrait of Gauguin (38 x 34cm) and Paul Gauguin’s The Little Cat (Le petit chat) (72 x 25cm)(both November-December 1888) 

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) and private collection, France (photograph from Van Gogh Museum)