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Framing Van Gogh: why the artist did not want to surround his works with gold

The National Gallery’s blockbuster exhibition, ‘Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers’, provided an unusual opportunity to see how the artist’s works have been framed by their owners

Martin Bailey
29 August 2025
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Van Gogh’s The Bedroom (September 1889), a detail with the hanging landscape showing how he liked to show his art

Art Institute of Chicago (Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection, 1926.417)