VAN GOGH AT THE RIVER’S EDGE · Van Gogh’s career was full of twists and turns and eventually led him to the small town of Auvers-sur-Oise. The landscapes that he painted there,

Auvers-sur-Oise // 4 April – 20 September 2016

VAN GOGH AT THE RIVER’S EDGE

On the strength of its success in 2015, the town of Auvers-sur-Oise is staying faithful to the principle of celebrating the art of our time. The 2016 cultural season will have as its theme the famous river from which Auvers derives its full name.

During the second half of the nineteenth century the banks of the Oise were the scene of activities ranging from the daily work of the washerwomen to the weekend leisure of boating folk. Parisians with an eye for the picturesque were soon attracted to the place. If it had not been for the Oise, Charles-François Daubigny would never have set up home there in 1860. And the painters that followed him, such as Daumier, Corot, Pissarro and Cézanne, would also have gone elsewhere. Doctor Gachet in turn would not have found the cultural climate that was so much to his taste and thus Van Gogh would never have painted his Wheatfield with Crows.

The two pictures painted by Auvers’ most famous artist with the Oise as subject are undisputed masterpieces. Yet out of the remarkable number of 80 or so canvases that Van Gogh painted in Auvers in just 70 days, his Oise paintings could appear to be marginal if judged in merely quantitative terms. But that’s far from telling the whole story. These two works are quintessential for an understanding of his themes and techniques, enabling us to discover a surprising, and different, side to Van Gogh, the philosopher and virtuoso painter.

The mayor’s office of Auvers-sur-Oise in conjunction with its cultural partners has devised an ambitious year-long programme of events and exhibitions for the benefit of tourists and local residents. Surprising aspects of Van Gogh’s life and work will be in store for visitors, who will also find much to interest them in the work of other artists of his time and ours.

In 2016, more than ever before, Auvers-sur-Oise is going to be an artists’ village.

AUVERS-SUR-OISE -2016 SEASONwww.surlespasdevangogh.eu

Press contact :

Clara Moreno+33(0)6 12 56 70 [email protected]

Press Release“Van Gogh At The River’s Edge: Water Impressions ”

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TWO MAJOR RIVERSIDE PAINTINGS

By Dr Wouter van der Veen, December 2015

Vincent van Gogh at 23, in a letter to his brother Theo, aged 19, Isleworth, 25 November 1876

“ At dawn it was so beautiful on the road to Turnham Green, with the chestnut trees and the clear blue sky, and the morning sun reflecting in the Thames; and the superb greenness of the grass and the ringing of church bells all around. ”

The young man who described the sunlight reflecting in the

Thames in this letter to his young brother could not have

imagined that one day painting landscapes would be the way he

would try to make his living.

Nearly a year earlier his career had taken a characteristic violent

turn when he abruptly ended a promising career as an employee

of the firm Goupil and Co, art dealers and publishers. Yielding to an

overpowering religious impulse, and fired up by a zeal that defies

the understanding of ordinary mortals, Vincent van Gogh set his

sights on a new goal: he was going to be a Protestant minister.

While waiting to enrol for theology studies at Amsterdam

University and burning with impatience, he attended as many

churches as he could find, soaking up the word of God to the point

of almost drowning in it. His spiritual progression was related in

long epistles to all and sundry. These included his brother Theo,

who had the inspired idea of keeping all this correspondence. It

is thanks to the latter’s conscientiousness, which did not stop at

keeping all the letters, that we can now trace the development

of an exceptional painter, who is considered to be one of the

greatest landscape artists of all time.

Van Gogh’s career was full of twists and turns and eventually

led him to the small town of Auvers-sur-Oise. The landscapes

that he painted there, which included Wheatfields with Crows

and Fields under a Cloudy Sky, are more than just acknowledged

masterpieces; they have acquired iconic status in art history.

They are masterly compositions which have not come about by

chance and it is not enough to merely speak of the artist’s ‘talent’.

They are the result of years of labour, reflection, doubt, joy and

suffering. The ingredients are well-known: an acute feeling for

colour and a profound understanding of composition patiently

acquired over time, combined with a unique brush-stroke of such

expressive strength as to take Impressionism where it had never

been before. And yet it is one thing to know the ingredients; it is

another to understand how the master made the recipe work –

and in just a few hours each time – and it will remain one of the

wonderful mysteries of art.

Vincent van Gogh - Wheatfields with crows



BOATING ON THE OISE

Vincent van Gogh was always sensitive to the beauty of nature, and

long before he became an artist furthermore. Cloud effects, peasants

working in the fields, river scenes, seascapes, woodlands, these were the

outdoor sights that had always been an inspiration to him, come wind

come rain. In his correspondence he filled his letters with magnificent

descriptions, worthy of the greatest authors. As a painter it was as if

he was instinctively trying to go beyond the formulaic and inanimate

composition more associated with photography. Little by little he

developed a real graphic syntax of his own, based on signs and pointers,

rhythms and echoes; it was in this way that he injected into nature what

one can only call soul – that extra something that was deeply personal

yet universal at the same time.

In Van Gogh’s canvases the foliage of the trees harmonizes with the

adjacent blue of his skies, the earthy country roads with the buildings of

stone, the distant hills with the furrowed fields. Every part of the picture

is conveyed with an individual brush-stroke, as we see in major works

such as Rainy Landscape with Train, Château d’Auvers at Sunset and

Boating on the Oise.

In this last picture the special effort put into the rendering of the foliage

is quite clear. The trees and bushes are like dense, living masses, the

more distant ones no less alive than the ones in the foreground. Each

individual leaf is painted with one stroke of green edged with a darker or

lighter stroke, depending on the type of vegetation and the amount of

sunlight on it. The overall composition of the mass of foliage is masterly:

the artist has simply conveyed an effect, for an examination of the leaves

individually shows that there is nothing really natural about them. Thus does Van Gogh create a living and convincing effect

that contributes in a major way to the impact of the painting.

Thanks to the coherence of this technique and the relative restraint of the chromatic range, the rendering of the foliage

is discreet enough in the end to allow the onlooker’s gaze to find the centre of the picture. Three human figures are idling

by the waterside among some twelve or more rowing boats spread out before them in a fan-like pattern. But now there

is a much more striking colour range. The boats offer Van Gogh a chance to demonstrate a virtuoso handling of those

complementary colour effects that he was so fond of: purple juxtaposed to yellow, then orange and blue, followed by green

and red. The relaxed and leisurely aura of the human world is brought out in the pale and pastel tones in which the three

people are painted, and enhanced by the striking contrast with the bright colours of the boats alongside them.

Capturing the effect of the surface of water is a challenge for any painter. It was never a priority for Van Gogh in his search

for subjects, but that did not prevent him from taking on the challenge with enthusiasm whenever it presented itself.

Once he had set himself up in Arles in 1888 he first painted the famous Langlois Bridge a number of times and then went

as soon as he could to Saintes-Maries de la Mer to paint seascapes. Before that, when he was in Paris from 1886 to 1888,

he had been very frequently to the favourite haunts of the boating fraternity along the banks of the Seine, sometimes in

the company of Georges Seurat. And of course in the Netherlands one of his first subjects had been the North Sea and its

breakers beneath grey skies.

As a matter of fact he handled the surface of the water with the same boldness that he applied to his fields, woodlands and

skies; hence fleeting, changing impressions of water at the mercy of wind and light. And finally it is perhaps significant that

when Vincent took part in the Fifth Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in Paris in September 1889 the picture

he chose to be represented by was Starry Night above the Rhône. Despite the title, the stars have a secondary role in this

picture, which was revolutionary for its time. Pride of place is given to the surface of the Rhône, in which are reflected the

lights of the city of Arles, lined up, as it were, before the observer and flickering in the moving current of the river.

Vincent van Gogh - Boating on the Oise

Vincent van Gogh - Langlois Bridge



THE ART OF PAINTING

Despite the seeming ease - apparently intuitive and spontaneous -

with which Van Gogh painted, he was in fact obsessed with technique.

He calculated, measured, experimented, invented; the only thing he

left to chance was that extra element that could bring a spark of life

to his pictures. The surface of the water as in Boating on the Oise

can be seen in this respect to be a response to a prodigious technical

challenge. Certain painters, such as Charles-François Daubigny or

Claude Monet, liked nothing better. Others would never risk it.

In fact, a canvas as a two-dimensional representation of an observed

three-dimensional reality may depict something such as a river

or a lake which requires the artist to render a constantly moving

surface. And this surface, which is also in two dimensions, reflects a

three-dimensional environment distorted by the combined effect of

diffraction and eddies. The spacing out of the lights of Arles across

the canvas in Starry Night above the Rhône is a fine example.

In Boating on the Oise the two-and three-dimensional factors are

perfectly mastered by the artist and skilfully reinforced by major

structuring details. An impression of height, verticality, is obtained

by the central male figure (who, in addition to his aesthetic role in

the composition, will perhaps serve the ladies in more senses than

one). Length and width are suggested visually by the fishing rod in

the hands of the feminine figure standing close to him. Finally, depth

is lent to the composition by the gracefully curved line of boats

receding into the distance.

The water reflects the blue sky, which the artist has handled with

great simplicity, as well as the foliage and the colours of the boats.

This touch of blue shows the hand of a master. Without it, the water

would at best just be green and indistinct from the boats. A final

detail is that this complex surface is not flat; rather it is slightly

curved and undulating. There is a subtle suggestion of movement

which brings life to the scene; and it is as if we can hear noise too

in the gentle lapping of the wavelets and bumping together of the

boats.

For an artist to manage a convincing rendering of the surface of a

river the greatest technical mastery is required. Yet paradoxically

this is where Van Gogh is at his most creative. He is at the same

time impressionist and expressionist, a master of both colour and

of composition, enjoying the freedom to make materiality vibrate

with life through the rhythm that he imparts to it. Just as with the

foliage in the upper part of the picture, the brush strokes creating

the surface of the water represent nothing, examined individually. It

is their juxtaposition and the harmony of their shades that account

for this indisputably successful evocation of a peaceful river.

Vincent van Gogh - Starry Night above the Rhône



VIEW OVER THE OISE: LIFE AS IT IS

In View over the Oise, an almost monochrome painting on a paper support, Van Gogh shows

the inexorable transformation of nature tamed and dominated by man. Where other painters

chose to show only landscapes devoid of any evidence of human presence Vincent sought on the

contrary to find a place for factories, railways and fences in his works. As he saw it, the artist’s

role was not to be nostalgic or to recreate paradise lost, even less to paint things he had not seen

with his own eyes. He held it against his friends Emile Bernard and Paul Gaugain that they painted

images of Christ that they had not seen, and which were thus nothing more than a part of their

private fantasy world.

A modern artist for him had to restrict himself to his own era and to paint it as it was for the

benefit of future generations. Beauty was to be seen everywhere; it was the job of the artist to

track it down and to detect the sublime in it and share it with others. This radical stance was

a fundamental part of Van Gogh’s vision; he repeated often enough that his works were to be

regarded as a consolation for those who took the trouble of looking at them. So it would be

unthinkable in his eyes that this consolation could be experienced via an artificial ‘reality’. A

painting was not an intimate record for the benefit solely of the artist, but rather a two-way

experience, an object proposing mutual recognition and confidence.

The sincerity and honesty of his whole outlook on art were thus primordial, and View over the

Oise is a perfect example of this. Van Gogh was not at all concerned to know whether a railway

line or a modern house were in themselves objects of beauty. What mattered for him was to

provoke sincere feeling which might in a way be consoling for those who bemoaned what he

called the “desperately quick changes and disappearance of things in modern life” - but also for

those who reacted in the opposite way. We can only applaud his wisdom in refusing to impose his

opinions and in simply expressing his doubts.

This tension between modernity and nostalgia is at the heart of View over the Oise. In the foreground the life of the rural folk carries on in time-honoured manner. In the middle-ground an iron bridge crosses the Oise and leads toward a building that could well be a factory with its tall chimney half hidden by the poplars. Between the foreground and the middle-ground we see the river, an incarnation of the passage of time. In the whole picture the only elements that have not been shaped by the hand of man are the Oise and a cloudy sky, another subject favoured by the painter of Sunflowers.

In both subject matter and form, Boating on the Oise and View over the Oise have as their common ground breathtaking technical skill and the innermost self-questioning of a genius of the world of painting. Although this is not in itself enough to fill a museum, it offers us nevertheless an infinite number of stimuli to our imagination and creativity.

Vincent van Gogh - View over the Oise Vincent van Gogh - Auvers landscape



DR. WOUTER VAN DER VEEN

Dr Wouter van der Veen is an art historian with a Doctorate in Literature who began his career as a researcher

in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. He now teaches at the University of Strasburg and is also specialist

consultant and advisor to the Van Gogh Institute in Auvers-sur-Oise.

For ten years he was part of the research team collating Vincent van Gogh’s letters, preparing them for the

publication of the complete critical edition of the artist’s correspondence. He is the editor of the 350 letters

written in French (6 volumes, Actes Sud / Thames & Hudson, Waanders, 2009).

Among his publications are Van Gogh, A Literary Mind (Musée Van Gogh / Waanders, Amsterdam / Zwolle,

2009), Dans la chambre de Vincent (Editions Desmaret, 2004) and the commentary to Peter Knapp’s film

Derniers jours à Auvers / Last Days in Auvers (Camera Lucida Productions, 52’, 2007).

Auvers-sur-Oise // 4 April – 20 September 2016

Press Release2016. Dr Wouter


The Auvers Tourist Office offers a range of outstanding Impressionist-themed

experiences packaged for private or professional individuals and groups.

The visitor can discover the very places which inspired painters such as Charles-

François Daubigny, Cézanne, Pissarro and Vincent van Gogh.

A direct train from the Gare du Nord in Paris at weekends and on public holidays

brings you (free of charge with the Navigo Pass) in just 30 minutes into the heart of

the artists’ town, ready to set off in the footsteps of the Impressionists.

Auvers-sur-Oise is situated at the cross-roads of the Paris-London ‘Green Avenue’ and

the European journey made by Van Gogh during his short but eventful life. The town

is a signatory of the Impressionism tourist contract uniting the Paris Ile-de-France and

Normandy regions to promote the whole area as an open air museum where artists

past and present come together to interpret landscape impressions in art.

ON THE RIVER, WATER IMPRESSIONS

Tourist Office Auvers-sur-Oise

In the footsteps of Van Gogh - Auvers-sur-Oise

2016 - Tourist Office In the heart of the valley of the Oise and of the Impressionists

Your chance to make a serene and enriching journey back in time to an authentically preserved cultural location only 30 kilometers from Paris

DATES

2016 Season Opening TimesTuesday to Sunday: 9h 30 – 18h 00 non-stop

PLACEPark Van Gogh38 rue du Général de Gaulle95430 Auvers-sur-Oise+33 (0) 1.30.36.71.81

Contact : Catherine Galliotcatherine.galliot@tourisme-auverssuroise.frwww.tourisme-auverssuroise.fr


A Sunday exploring ‘Impressionisms’

This is a new itinerary taking the visitor to all the outdoor locations that appealed to Daubigny, Cézanne, Pissarro and Van Gogh, to name just the most famous of the artists who set up their easels here: sites on the old main road, the fi elds at the top of the village and down to the Oise in the valley below.

DURATION

1h30 to 2h00.

START

15h00.

WHEN : every third Sunday in the month from April to October

COST

6 € / person – bookable in advance

An Impressionist Cruise on the Oise

A cruise with a commentary and musical accompaniment, pick-nick and refreshments/apéritifs The tourist offi ces of Cergy-Pontoise, l’Isle-Adam and Auvers-sur-Oise are combining their resources throughout the tourist season to offer themed cruises along the Oise valley starting from the three ports of call.

DURATION

1h30COST

from 14 € / person

INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS: +33 (0)1 30 36 71 81 - [email protected]

NEW IN 2016 – For individual visitors

Impressionists Day-Out

From Auvers-sur-Oise to Montmartre: You arrive by the direct train from Gare du Nord and spend the day in the country in Auvers-sur-Oise. After returning to Paris, you end the day in a Montmartre cabaret.

From Wednesday to Sunday, bookable in advance; Cost: From 116 euros per person

COST

from 116 €/person

Luxury Day-out Th e Heritage Experience

Your day starts in Paris: You will be picked up from your Paris hotel by a vintage chauffeur-driven Citroën DS. On arrival in Auvers-sur-Oise you will be welcomed at the Tourist Offi ce by your guide and lecturer for the day. You visit the House of Van Gogh and have lunch in the Auberge Ravoux. Your day is completed by visits to the Studio of Daubigny, the House of Doctor Gachet and the Absinth Museum.

DURATION

7h00 - Wednesdays to Sundays, bookable in advance

LANGUAGES AVAILABLE: French, English, German, Spanish

COST

from 700 €/person, on basis of two person per car

Weekend On the River aboard the Daphné

Day 1: Afternoon welcome on board, guided visit to Auvers-sur-Oise and Impressionist themed dinner in a restaurant. Night on board.Day 2: After breakfast the Daphné casts off her moorings for a cruise to Confl ans Sainte-Honorine, the famous centre of the French barge transport industry. After a quay-side lunch and a visit to the barge museum, the Daphné brings visitors back to Auvers for an evening pick-nick and a night on board.Day 3: Visits to the homes and museums associated with the artists: House of Van Gogh, House of Doctor Gachet, Studio of Daubigny.

DURATION

3 days – 2 nights on board

COST

on application

Auvers-sur-Oise Tourist Office


Musée Daubigny

EXHIBITION

Portraits Adrift


DATES

2 April – 28 August 2016Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 14h – 17h30Saturday, Sunday and public holidays: 10h30 – 12h30 / 14h-17h30

PLACEMusée DaubignyManoir des Colombières, rue de la Sansonne

ENTRANCE CHARGESFull rate 5 € • Reductions 2 € • Groups 3 € / personUnder 18s Free

Daumier, Léandre, Valadon, Steinlen, Luce, CézanneChirico, Chaissac, Bayard, Lartigue, Zadkine, Van Dongen, Ionesco, ….

In June 1890, just before his death, Vincent van Gogh wrote to his sister: “What I am most passionate about, much, much more than anything else in my profession, is the portrait, the modern portrait (…) I would like to paint portraits that a hundred years later would seem to people like apparitions.” As its contribution to the 2016 cultural season in Auvers-sur-Oise, the Musée Daubigny is proposing a re-examination of a theme dear to Van Gogh, the portrait. Just like him, we have made the choice of avoiding the academic approach, preferring works from different periods and using different techniques which place a premium on originality, even idiosyncrasy. For although a portrait is intended to show the exterior appearance and personality of the sitter, it can also be a deformed reflection of the sitter through the creative action of the artist. The portrait in painting and the graphic arts is the first part of this exhibition in works ranging from Cézanne to Chaissac. The second part will be devoted to caricature from the 19th century to our time starting with the caricatures of Daumier and ending with the contemporary satirical drawings of Tim. We then go on to examine the place of portraiture in photography, which from its earliest days has explored all the sub-genres, from Bayard to Ionesco via Lartigue. The Musée Daubigny will also be paying tribute to computer-generated art and present-day creative activity in Auvers-sur-Oise by inviting visitors to discover the work of Julien Tauland.

From April to June workshops and meetings with artists will be organized for the benefit of schools in the region.During the whole of the exhibition period ‘discovery workshops’ will also be organized for the general public under the auspices of the Tourist Office. (Information and bookings from the Museum and the Auvers-sur-Oise Tourist Office).

Evening opening and a concert on the occasion of this major annual event.

Workshops, encounters and activities Saturday 21 May: National Museum Night

Giorgio de Chirico, Portrait d’Anatole Jakowsky, © Association La Sirène


ADDRESSManoir des ColombièresRue de la Sansonne - 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise+33 (0)1 30 36 80 [email protected]

2016 OPENING HOURS2 April to 28 August:

Wednesday to Friday : 14h - 17h30

Saturday, Sunday and public holidays :10h30 - 12h30 / 14h - 17h30

PRESS AND P.R. Agnès Saulnier : +33 (0)1 30 36 80 20

Further Information:

www.museedaubigny.com

The Daubigny Museum was created in the middle of the 1980s by Daniel Raskin-Daubigny, a descendant of the artist, aided by three other art lovers in Auvers-sur-Oise, and is now run by the local authority. It is a home to original work testifying to the prolific artistic activity in the Oise valley, which has attracted so many artists in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In the Manoir des Colombières, the Museum houses four collections which can be exhibited when the annual themes are appropriate. One of the major attractions is a collection of paintings, drawings and engravings from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, with the work of Charles-François Daubigny (1817-1878), precursor of the Impressionists, as the central focus. This collection is complemented by the work of his son Karl, Jules Dupré, Maximilien Luce, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Norbert Goeneutte, Armand Guillaumin, Maximilien Maufra and Alexandre-René Veron…

The collection of Naïve art is one of the biggest in France. It has recently been enhanced by the donation of the workshop collection of Jean-Pierre Lagarde, the leader of the modern primitive movement. The collection of Contemporary Art is devoted to the work of Alechinsky, Corneille, Otto Freundlich, Camille Bryen, Antoni Clavé, Goetz, and Jean Messagier. Finally there is a specialized collection devoted to an unusual subject, cats, felines in art. Notable works are sculptures by Antoine-Louis Barye, Emmanuel Frémiet, René Lalique and Emile Gallé, and the collection also contains work by Jean Cocteau, Koji Ikuta, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlein.

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The House of Doctor Gachet


This year sees the twentieth anniversary of the purchase of the House of Dr Gachet by the Department of Val d’Oise. To celebrate the event the House of Dr Gachet is bringing out of its archives the greater part of its collection, consisting mainly of Doctor Gachet’s graphic work: preparatory drawings and engravings, landscapes and ‘vanitas’ portraits. They will be displayed alongside the permanent collection and on show to the public for the first time. This will be an opportunity to go back to an exceptionally rich period in the history of art and at the same time in an important symbolic place: not only Van Gogh of course but also Pissarro and Cézanne came this way…

In 1996 the Val d’Oise Department acquired a property of the greatest importance in the history of art, the house which had belonged to Dr Gachet. Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (1828-1909) was a medical man in some ways ahead of his time professionally as well as an amateur artist and collector, and in 1872 he bought a country house in Auvers-sur-Oise. He attracted a circle of painter friends to the house, and so it was in the company of Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Armand Guillaumin and Vincent van Gogh that he drew and engraved a body of work in his attic studio.

The careful restoration of the property, which was purchased from its last owners, the Vandenbroucke family in the 1990s, took seven years before being opened to the public in March 2003. Numerous vestiges of the past persist, a reminder of that creatively fertile period a century earlier for the visitors from all over the world who have come to the village that was Van Gogh’s home for the last weeks of his life. Furniture and wallpaper of the period, as well as paint stains and graffiti on the doctor’s studio walls, not to mention paint-pots everywhere, were poignant reminders of the past. The house still contains certain features to be found in Van Gogh’s paintings, such as the red table in Portrait of Dr Gachet (1890) and the very piano to be seen in Marguerite Gachet at the Piano, as well as the hand press used to print the etchings.

Dr Gachet’s exceptional collection of paintings was left to the nation by his descendants and now graces the walls of the Musée d’Orsay (it was fortunate that during the Second World War the collection was hidden in the caves at the back of the house). The magnificent garden full of flowers and medicinal plants, backed by a limestone cliff complete with troglodyte caves where the paintings had been hidden, is not the least of the charms of the place. Van Gogh painted the garden three times.

The House of Dr Gachet is thus a unique piece of heritage, preserved in its own right and serving in turn as a place for preserving and protecting. It is a bridge between the arts and the passage of time thanks to a programme of exhibitions taking place once or twice a year in which artists of the past and of our time can engage each other in dialogue. It is thus a place of conservation, but also a living place that fosters inspiration. The House of Dr Gachet continues to dazzle with all the radiance of a twenty-year old!

EXHIBITION

The Twentieth Anniversary of the House of Doctor Gachet

DATES2 April – 28 August 2016PLACEMaison du docteur GachetENTRANCEFree Entrance / Group visits by arrangement

PRESS AND P.R

Gaëlle Cueff – [email protected] - +33 (0)1 42 41 64 98


ADDRESS78 rue du docteur Gachet95430 [email protected]+33 (0)1 30 36 81 27

OPENING HOURS 20162 April – 30 October, Wednesday to Sunday 10.30 – 18.30Free entrance / Groups by appointment

CONTACT Delphine Travers +33 (0)1 34 25 16 77

Further information : www.valdoise-tourisme.com

Dr Gachet was a doctor in Paris and a member of learned societies as well as an amateur painter and engraver. He bought his house in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1872 and equipped it with a printer’s hand press; soon he was sketching and engraving with his friends Cézanne, Pissarro and Guillaumin. He was something of a specialist in psychiatry and so in 1890 he responded favourably to a request from Pissarro to take Van Gogh under his wing who had just arrived from the south of France. In turn Dr Gachet was immortalized by Van Gogh who made three portraits of him, twice on canvas and once in an etching. Dr Gachet combined his artistic and medical activities throughout the whole of his career, and was a key figure during the last months of Van Gogh’s life.

The house and garden were placed on the supplementary list of French historic monuments in 1991. The house was bought by the Val d’Oise Department in 1996 and opened to the public in 2003 in time for the 150th anniversary of Vincent van Gogh’s birth. The doctor’s collection of paintings and engravings has been disposed of but the original wallpaper in the house still bears the traces of the artworks that once hung there.Dr Gachet’s house is a very big one, but consisting entirely of small, intimate rooms. A discreet and almost imperceptible lighting system has been designed to focus on the surface of objects, the relationship between colours and the harmony of the volumes in the house. A programme of historical or contemporary exhibitions every year displays prints, engravings and other works of art relating to the history of the site.

The House of Doctor Gachet

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Auberge Ravoux known as

The « House of Van Gogh »In the footsteps of Van Gogh - Auvers-sur-Oise

The spirit of Vincent van Gogh lives on in the tiny room of the attic floor of the Auberge Ravoux, where he spent the last 70 days of his life. His room was number 5 and that is where Van Gogh’s glorious reputation suddenly gives way to an atmosphere of intimacy. Every year great numbers of visitors come from all over the world on a pilgrimage to discover Van Gogh’s room exactly as it was, a haven of peace isolated from the frantic pace of the outside world.

After visiting this room, the pilgrim then moves to an adjacent audiovisual projection room, where a video entitled “In the footsteps of Van Gogh” recreates Vincent’s stay in Auvers-sur-Oise, illustrating the paintings he did there and including extracts from his correspondence and period photographs.

The site, a ‘place of memory’, was classified in 1985 on the official French inventory of “Historic Monuments” and is now the only one of Van Gogh’s 37 known successive dwelling places preserved in its original condition.

Van Gogh’s Room

The Auberge Ravoux is to be found in the heart of the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, 20 miles to the North of Paris. It was the last dwelling place of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), who in a life lasting 37 years had no fewer than 37 addresses in The Netherlands, Belgium, England and France.

There are ten illustrated information panels in the courtyard outside retracing Van Gogh’s human and artistic journey through the different places where he lived.

The dining room of the Auberge Ravoux in particular is full of activity, a place where the convivial atmosphere of a 19th century artists’ café prevails. At lunch time or in the evening diners can enjoy the authentic but inexpensive cuisine of Van Gogh’s time, accompanied by a good selection of traditional French wines.

The Michelin Guide, in its review “Etoile – Dining that is worth going out of your way for” - has this to say about the Auberge Ravoux: “Doubtless Vincent would still feel at home in the restaurant today, which is just like one of those black and white postcard views of a 19th century café. Imagine how many modern pilgrims soak up the spirit of the place and fancy themselves too as artists doomed to a tragic fate! The cuisine appropriately draws on the recipes of yesteryear, both simple rural cooking and more elaborate dishes. It’s all very good indeed… and suddenly your faith in life is restored!”.

The Auberge Ravoux

DATES2 March to 30 0ctober 2016

In partnership with the Institut Van Gogh

ENTRANCEAdults 6 €

Plaque commémorative apposée sur la façade de l’Auberge Ravoux le 27 juillet 1946.


1855 Auguste Crosnier, stone mason, and his young wife Adelaïde Caffin, seamstress, move in to their newly built house. A few years later the ‘Mairie’ (Town Hall) is built opposite on the other side of the road. In 1876 their daughter Valentine and her husband Alfred Levert open a wine shop on the ground floor of the Crosnier’s house.

1884 The Levert couple make alterations to the house and improve the appearance of the façade. The wine shop becomes a café and restaurant called Café de la Mairie. There are now seven furnished rooms for rent.

1890 The Levert couple retire from business and appoint Arthur-Gustave Ravoux and his wife Louise to manage the Café de la Mairie on their behalf.On 20 May Arthur Ravoux rents room 5 to Vincent van Gogh. 70 days later Van Gogh dies from complications resulting from a bullet wound that he said he inflicted on himself. On 30 July Vincent’s brother Theo organizes a memorial occasion in the dining room of the Auberge, followed by Vincent’s burial in the Auvers cemetery. Emile Bernard, Camille Pissarro, Doctor Gachet, Anton Hirschig and the Ravoux family were among those present. The “suicide’s room” is never rented out again.

1926 Thanks to the artist’s growing fame the Café de la Mairie is re-baptized the “House of Van Gogh”.

1985 The establishment is classified as a “Historic Monument”.This was the year when Dominique-Charles Janssens had a serious motor accident in front of the Auberge Ravoux. On recovering consciousness he learned that it was Vincent van Gogh’s last dwelling place. He immediately immersed himself during his period of recuperation in Van Gogh’s correspondence and discovered the man hiding behind the image of the ill-fated artist. He was profoundly moved by Van Gogh “the visionary” and resigned his post as marketing director in a big industrial company. Henceforth he was totally devoted to the restoration of “Van Gogh”s House and the running of it as a place dedicated to the great artist’s memory.

1986 Dominique-Charles Janssens negotiated the purchase of the site from the Tagliana family, who had owned it since 1955. His aim was to develop a concept that was commercial and at the same time cultural, and make it work smoothly. The challenge was twofold: a place imbued with historical significance had to continue as before as a café-restaurant while also existing with a cultural purpose: it would be opened to the public eager to see ‘Van Gogh’s Room’.

1987 With the support of a number of enthusiastic friends he founded the Institut Van Gogh. Their aim was to ensure that the House of Van Gogh would be financially independent and to foster a double marriage: ‘economics and culture, passion and reason’.

1993 In September the Auberge Ravoux, known as the House of Van Gogh, re-opened its doors to the public.

1998 The Auberge Ravoux won first prize in the annual award “Spirit of France”.

2013 On 20th September the House of Van Gogh celebrated its 20th anniversary. Since 1993 Van Gogh’s room has been seen by 1,250,000 visitors drawn from all over the world and the cuisine of Arthur (‘Père’) Ravoux has delighted close on 160,000 guests of all nationalities. More than 21,000 newspaper articles and nearly 2,300 radio and television programs have borne witness worldwide to the success of the project “a place of memory, a place of life”.

2015 This year was the 125th anniversary of Van Gogh’s stay in the Auberge Ravoux. The surviving members of his family and the Directors of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam came to Auvers to commemorate the event. Just as in 1890 a solemn memorial ceremony was organized in the Auberge Ravoux and sunflowers and yellow dahlias were left on the brothers’ graves in the Auvers cemetery.

ADDRESSPlace de la Mairie - 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise+33 (0)1 30 36 60 60 - [email protected]

OPENING TIMES 2016LA CHAMBRE DE VAN GOGHWednesday 2 March – Sunday 30 OctoberWednesday to Sunday 10.00 – 18.00 (last visit 17.30)Group visits by appointment, mornings only

AUBERGE RAVOUXWednesday 2 March – Sunday 27 NovemberLunch from Wednesday to SundayDinner Fridays and Saturdays onlyFixed menu ‘du marché’ 29 €, à la carte 60 € (Also available for private hire)

ENTRANCEAdults 6 €Reductions 4 €Children under 12: free

Further information www.maisondevangogh.fr

HISTORICAL RÉSUMÉ

Auberge Ravoux known as The « Maison de Van Gogh »

CONTACT / PRESS P.R.Stéphanie Piard :[email protected]


The Institut Van GoghIn the footsteps of Van Gogh - Auvers-sur-Oise

The Institut Van Gogh was created in 1987 and exists for the

purpose of preserving and paying homage to the memory, soul

and spirit of Van Gogh. It is situated in Auvers-sur-Oise, 20 miles

to the North of Paris, and runs a full programme of cultural

activities in the artist’s last home, the Auberge Ravoux (‘Ravoux

Inn’), known as the “House of Van Gogh”.

Essentially the Institut Van Gogh focuses its efforts on one major

project: fulfilling Vincent van Gogh’s last wish: “Some day or other

I believe I shall find a way of having an exhibition of my own in a

café.” That was what he wrote in the Auberge Ravoux on 10 June

1890 in a letter to his brother Théo. The Institut Van Gogh has

taken up the challenge and is pressing ahead…

For Van Gogh’s dream to be fulfilled, a precise setting for the

exhibition is necessary, and that setting is in the Auberge

Ravoux, which was inscribed on the inventory of French Historic

Monuments in 1985. Under the aegis of Dominique-Charles

Janssens, the Auberge has been completely restored.

Today the Institut Van Gogh aims to acquire one of the pictures

Van Gogh painted in Auvers and exhibit it in room number 5 of

the Auberge Ravoux, thus fulfilling Van Gogh’s dream. The little

rooftop room with its dormer window will then become a ‘Room

with a View’.

So that the public can share Van Gogh’s dream, the Institut Van

Gogh has created an iPad application with precisely that title in

English, Van Gogh’s Dream. In November 2013 it was considered

by the New York Times to be one of the best educational apps in

the cultural field.

ADDRESSPlace de la Mairie - 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise

CONTACTDominique-Charles Janssens +33 (0)1 30 36 60 [email protected]

Further information :

www.maisondevangogh.frwww.vangoghsdream.org


The Institut Van Gogh


Daubigny’s Garden by Vincent van Gogh


Whereas in our time visitors to Auvers-sur-Oise are following

in the footsteps of Van Gogh, he himself in 1890 was trying to

find traces of Charles-François Daubigny, whom he held in high

esteem. This is how he had expressed his admiration twelve

years earlier:

“The uncle told me that Daubigny is dead. I was terribly sorry

to learn this, I don’t mind admitting it… It must be a good thing

when you’re dying to know that you’ve achieved some really good

things, and that at least some people will remember you because

of them, and that you’ll be a good example to those still alive”. Letter from Vincent to his brother Théo, 1878

Daubigny’s garden inspired Van Gogh to paint four pictures! In

a letter to Théo on 23 July 1890 he wrote: “Perhaps you’ll see

this sketch of Daubigny’s garden – it’s one of the canvases I’ve

put the most effort into”.

It is not in fact the garden of the House and Studio of Daubigny

but the garden of his widow’s house, opposite the railway

station.

Van Gogh was never to see Daubigny’s home, even though it

was only 500 metres from his lodgings in the Auberge Ravoux.

Van Gogh’s humble little rooftop room in the inn was a far cry

from the comfort of the house and studio that Daubigny could

afford as a successful painter at the end of the 19th century.

Vincent van GoghDaubigny’s Garden, 1890Oil on Canvas (51 by 51 cms)Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum

This picture is painted on a linen kitchen cloth from the Auberge Ravoux


ADDRESS61 Rue Daubigny - 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise

SEASON 201626 March - 30 October with a mid-summer closure from mid-July to mid-August

ENTRANCE CHARGESAdults: 6 €Reductions: 4 €Children under 12: free

CONTACT/PRESS P.R. Tourist Office Auvers-sur-Oise+33 (0) 1 30 36 71 [email protected]

Further information: www.atelier-daubigny.com

In 1861 the highly reputed landscape painter Daubigny bought a house in Auvers-sur-Oise and welcomed visits

from his artist friends.

This was the beginning of the village’s fame as a source of inspiration for painters and a place for them to gather.

And this is how this artist’s home, which doubled as his studio (200 square metres altogether), came by its

exceptional interior decoration to which Daubigny father and son, Corot, Daumier and Oudinot all contributed - a

fitting testimony to the warm family atmosphere and artistic vitality of the era.

The House and Studio are classified in the French national inventory of Historic Monuments. Further prestigious

recognition came in October 2014 when they were included among the “Houses of the Famous” (“Maisons des

Illustres”) and awarded a plaque to that effect. The House and studio of Daubigny are a ‘place of memory’ where

the visitor can soak up the authentic atmosphere perfectly preserved as it was one hundred and fifty years ago.

They remain the property and residence of the painter’s descendants.

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PERMANENT EXHIBITION

Journey to the Age of the Impressionists

‘IMMERSION’ IN THE WORLD OF PARIS AT THE TIME OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS

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OPENING HOURS 2016Open throughout the year - Duration of visit: I hour(closed annually mid-Dec to mid-Jan)From Tuesday to Sunday and public holidays• From 1 April to 30 September: 10h30 - 18h• From 1 October to 31 March: 10h30 – 16h30

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The Château of Auvers-sur-Oise is participating in the “Destination Impressionism” programme, and is one

of the highlights of the “Normandy of the Impressionists” Festival which takes place from 16 April to 26

September 2016. This multimedia ‘Journey’ takes the visitor right back to the birth of this major artistic

movement at the end of the 19th century.

The multimedia experience “Journey to the Age of the Impressionists” is a total immersion in the Paris at the

end of the 19th century at a time of dramatic developments.

Twelve rooms are visited, all arranged thematically. Special lighting and sound effects have been created

to introduce the visitor to the society of the time when a revolutionary artistic movement was being born:

Impressionism.

Flat screen TV, holograms, interactive terminals… and more than 500 works of art by Claude Monet, Camille

Pissarro, Gustave Caillebotte, Edouard Manet, Alfred Sisley and Auguste Renoir are brought to life throughout the

journey.

PRESS AND P.R.Stéphanie LAURENTHead of P.R.+33 (0) 1 34 48 48 [email protected]

ENTRANCE FEES• Children less than 6 years old: Free• Adults: 14.75 €• Children (6-18): 10.65 €• Students (-25 years), handicapped and job seekers: 10.65 €• Teaching profession: 13.25 €• Family rate: 2 adultes + 1 enfant : 36.25 €• Family rate: 2 adultes + 2 enfants : 43.40 €• Group visits by appointment

Audio guides available free in 7 languages:

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The permanent exhibition is located in the heart of the Château and takes visitors on a journey back in time to the Age of the Impressionists in Paris, a world of cabarets where absinth could create dreams - but also wreck lives. A world too that was fashion conscious and catered for by the newly invented department stores such as the famous “Au Bonheur des Dames”. The phenomenon of the railway was also new and so the famous Gare Saint-Lazare is also ‘visited’; this was how journeys to the sea-side were made and how artists came to paint scenes on the Seine and the Oise, some of them in their floating studios mounted on boats… It is an original way to make an outing down through the years, discovering or re-discovering the richness of French social life of the times (workmen, laundresses, artists, rakes, establishment worthies and bourgeois…).

ADDRESSRue de Léry - 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise+33 (0)1 34 48 48 [email protected] access and free parking

OPENING HOURS 20161 April – 30 September: 10h30 – 18h001 October – 31 March: 10h30 – 16h30Closed on Mondays, except public holidays

CONTACTStéphanie LAURENTHead of P.R.+33 (0)1 34 48 48 [email protected]

Further information: www.chateau-auvers.fr

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The Château of Auvers is home to the sole interpretive centre for the study of art specifically in Paris at the

time of the Impressionists .The focus is on the emergence of this movement seen against the essential developments in society at the end of the nineteenth century. We discover Impressionist painting from the inside, stepping within the canvases as it were, as if we possessed the artist’s eye. The different artistic techniques are explained, as well as the influence of Japanese art, the role of photography, the handling of colour, the painter’s tools and in particular the invention of paint in tubes that enabled artists to get out of their city studios and in to the open air.“Journey to the Age of the Impressionists” is a fascinating interactive education. And what better preparation for visiting the charming village of Auvers-sur-Oise?

Marie-Cécile TomasinaDirector of the Château of Auvers-sur-Oise

Facebook : facebook.com/chateau.auversTwitter : @chateauauversInstagram : chateau_auvers_officielYouTube : youtube.com/ChateauAuvers

NEWS ABOUT THE CHATEAU CAN ALSO BE FOUND ON THE NETWORKS

The Château of Auvers was built in the 17th century for an Italian banker who migrated to France with Marie de Médicis. In 1987 it was bought by the Department of Val d’Oise, and after complete restoration it opened to the public in 1994.Its main attraction is the multimedia cultural experience “Journey to the Age of the Impressionists”, a vibrant homage to the artists of the second half of the 19th century”. The Château also houses temporary exhibitions and is home to the Ecole d’Art Floral, famed throughout Europe, as well as the annual Iris flower festival and a host of other cultural and educational shows and activities. More than 77 000 visitors are attracted to the Château each year, from France and abroad. It is reached by direct train from Paris Gare du Nord (30 minutes) on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from April to October.


Th e Absinth MuseumIn the footsteps of Van Gogh - Auvers-sur-Oise

PERMANENT EXHIBITION

Van Gogh and the matter of water

Water is very present in Impressionist paintings, and is just as present in cafés. It drips, cool and fresh, drop

by drop from the fountain like so many iridescent pearls. The magic of the Green Fairy cannot take place

without water, which produces its subtle shades and liberates its perfumes.

And if “an absinth drinker is fi rst a drinker of water”, as has been very seriously suggested, Vincent van Gogh

drank more absinth than water if we are to believe Gauguin, who stated that he drank it diluted!

“Th ere is a view over the Rhône where the sky and the water are the colour of absinth, with a blue bridge and some shady human fi gures.”

Vincent to Theo, Correspondence v.3, p.259

Water, that liquid so pernicious that a single drop is enough to cloud absinth

Absinth, 1887.

A TASTING OPPORTUNITY IN THE ABSINTH-CAFÉ

cost: 4 € to Museum visitors 5 € to café customers

44 rue Callé 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise+33 (0) 1 30 36 83 26

mail : [email protected] : www.musee-absinthe.comblog : http://absinthemuseum.auvers.over-blog.com

OPENING HOURS 2016

ADDRESS

12 March – 30 OctoberSaturdays and Sundays 13h30 – 18h00

For the period 6 July – 28 August: Wednesdays, Th ursdays, Fridays

Last entrance: 17h30

Group visits welcome all week by arrangement

ENTRANCE FEES• Full rate: 5 €• Reductions: 4 € (groups, handicapped, 16 – 18yrs)

• Under 15: free


The Museum is located just a short walk away from the Auberge Ravoux and gives the visitor an excellent idea of

café life at the time of the Impressionists.

The Absinth Museum shows the important part played by absinth in 19th century social and cultural life through

its unique collection of authentic objects necessary for the ritual of serving the libation. It was known popularly

as the ‘Green Fairy’ and its treatment in press cartoons, engravings and paintings is also a major part of the

Museum’s collection.

The Museum also has a garden where the scents of the aromatic plants that go into the concoction of the ‘Green

Fairy’ greet the visitor and stimulate the desire to taste it…

ADDRESS PRESS AND P.R: 44, rue Callé - 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise+33 (0)1 30 36 83 [email protected]

Marie-Claude Delahaye : + 33 (0)1 30 36 83 26

Further information:

www.musee-absinthe.fr

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Landscape rereadings and Auvers reflections

Contemporary Artin Auvers-sur-Oise


EXHIBITION

The Graps Collective

In partnership with the Department of Val d’Oise

Contemporary art is completely at home in Auvers as regards the making of pictures in the strictest sense. Almost thirty artists in all media have chosen to settle and work in Auvers-sur-Oise. Twenty of them live in the cité Van Gogh (‘Van Gogh Community Residence’), where each apartment has its own studio.

An ambitious project is now under way to give maximum exposure to their work. The 2016 season, which is dedicated for the third successive year to the ‘footsteps of Van Gogh’ sees a vast artistic effort being put into linking original contemporary art work and the cultural heritage of the region. The plan is under the auspices of the town of Enghien-les-Bains and the Department of Val d’Oise, focusing notably on the artist François Vogel.

The Auvers Artists’ Collective is a completely new association and is taking over the town’s contemporary art

gallery to present visitors with a very personal interpretation of their environment. They express themselves

in a wide range of media: painting, collage, assembled objects, engraving, photography, computer-generated

images and installations. 15 artists will be represented in 2 major exhibitions spaced over 5 months. The

exhibitions will be accompanied by a programme of out-of-the-ordinary events and encounters with the

artists.

Julian tauland – suprafondeur reflets (‘overdepth reflections’)

DATES2 April – 29 May 2016 and 23 July to 28 AugustWeekends and public holidays 14h00 to 18h00Group visits by appointment

PLACEGalerie d’art contemporain5, rue du Montcel - 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise

Free Entrance


EXHIBITION

François Vogel

In partnership with the Enghien-les-Bains Arts Centre and the Department of Val d’Oise

PRESS AND P.R.Laurent Olivier - Director of Cultural Affairs

+33 (0)1 34 48 00 10 - [email protected]

Twelve Views of the Oise: Visual Symphony for Twelve Screens

Twelve Views over the Oise is a video installation projected simultaneously on twelve screens arced over 180°. They tell the story of a simple journey of a rowing boat on the Oise. The sequence dwells on the sky, a line of trees and their reflection in the river, all slowly moving in a mosaic of twelve screens. The twelve images all sometimes line up to form just one gigantic panorama, or sometimes on the contrary break up to present a kaleidoscopic view of reality. The combination of the real reflections of the water and the computerized reflections between the different screens embarks the spectator on a strange voyage into the world of water and reflections. Visitors will have opportunities to dialogue with the artist in an afternoon visit to the site.

«François Vogel is an Image Cosmonaut who makes weird optical machines to set off in conquest of a street or a garden. By playing with weightlessness and perspective, he rearranges everyday reality (…) to the point of taking us through to the other side of the mirror». Télérama

François Vogel - Views over the Oise, detail

DATES2 Jully - 28 August 2016Every day: 10h to 12h and 14h to 18h

PLACEMaison de L’IsleRue Marcel Martin – 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise

Free Entrance

Contemporary Art in Auvers-sur-Oise


The Festival of Auvers-sur-OiseIn the footsteps of Van Gogh - Auvers-sur-Oise

EXHIBITION

PROGRAMME

SPECIAL CONCERT:

The Painter Gaël Davrinche

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Gaël Davrinche graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2000 and was at first attracted by a “non educated” style of expression – spontaneous, eschewing artifice, and more akin to children’s art. He soon moved on to taking a fresh look at the work of the old masters and reinterpreting them in a way that could be either irreverent or celebratory.

Through the determining act of painting Gaël Davrinche makes us think again about the portrait, about what its historical and social meaning might be, and its real and imaginary dimension. The artist hovers between the poles of being and seeming and exhibits in this exhibition a series of curious portraits and self-portraits. Gaël Davrinche’s art makes a powerful impression. He dabs and daubs and hacks at his material like a mad painter, inviting us to make an astonishing visual discovery.

Highlights include performances by the Venice Baroque Orchestra and Patricia Petibon, Khathia and Gvantsa Buniatishvili, Denis Matsuev, Accentus and the Paris Chamber Orchestra, Katia and Marielle Labèque, the Van Kuijk Quatuor, Fanny Azzurro, the Artaserse Ensemble and the counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky.Invited composer: Anthony Girard.

Wednesday 22 June 2016 at 20h30 – Philharmonie 2, Accentus / Paris Chamber Orchestra.Stanislas de Barbeyrac, tenor – Karine Deshayes, mezzo – Florian Sempey, baritone – conducted by Laurence Equilbey.

Charles Gounod: ‘Recréation française’ of Saint Francis of Assisi – Franz Liszt: From the Cradle to the Grave, The Legend of Saint Cecilia. Coproduction Festival of Auvers-sur-Oise, Paris Chamber Orchestra, Accentus, Paris Philharmonie.

The church of Notre-Dame, Auvers-sur-Oise, is perched on its small hill and is transformed into a kind of musical sanctuary for the duration of the festival. It is a true ‘living picture’, a constant reminder of the artist who painted it so famously, and also the emblematic site of every year’s new ‘Opus’.

DATE11 June to 8 July 2016

Performances take place in the church Notre-Dame de l’Assomption

PLACEGalerie d’art contemporain.5 rue du Montcel, open 14h00 to 18h00, weekends and public holidaysEglise d’Auvers-sur-Oise. Open every day


2016 SEASONSaturday 11 June – Friday 8 July

Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise - Manoir des Colombières95 430 - Auvers-sur-Oise – +33 (0) 1 30 36 77 77

www.festival-auvers.com+33 (0) 1 30 36 77 77email: billetterie @festival-auvers.comThe ticket office is also open on the site one hour before the beginning of the concert

TICKET OFFICE

ON-LINE BOOKING

TICKETS ON SALE:Saturday 19 March, 9h00 / 13h00 for subscriptions OPENING HOURS: From 22 March:Monday 14h00 to 18h00Tuesday to Friday 10h00 to 13h00 // 14h00 to 18h00

From 2 May:As above but also Saturday 10h00 to 13h00closed Sundays and public holidays

PUBLIC RELATIONSAgence Sequenza ComprodIsabelle Gillouard10 avenue Jean Moulin – 75014 Paris+ 33 (0)1 45 43 77 58I.G + 33 (0)6 60 93 16 23

For further information : www.festival-auvers.com

Over the course of the years the Auvers-sur-Oise Festival has become one of the major events in the national calendar of classical music, combining its poetic setting with the spirit of adventure that was there from the start. few will have forgotten the concerts given by Cziffra, Richter, Raimondi, Crespin, Maurice André, Nelson Freire, Hélène Grimaud, Nikita Magaloff, Gundula Janowitz, Alexis Weissenberg, Barbara Hendricks, Rostropovitch, Teresa Berganza, Christa Ludwig, Evgeny Kissin, Cecilia Bartoli, or Renée Fleming. Others will remember the successful ‘launchings’ of the Wanderer Trio, Claire-Marie Le Guay, Denis Matsuev, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and Sanja Bizjak to name but a few of the new stars in the firmament.

Almost 15 000 artists and 300 000 festival goers have been to Auvers since the beginning, including 16 000 school children for an exposure to classical music. Nor must we fail to mention the building of an organ of thirty stops and the 250 000 disks produced under the DiscAuvers label introducing a great number of musicians to the European musical scene. Every year’s programme of high quality classical music bears the hallmarks of the preceding years: variety, curiosity, vivaciousness and freedom. Auvers can be baroque, classical, romantic, lyrical or contemporary…The moods may vary, but they are always created in a setting laden with history. The last word is with Eve Ruggieri: “Auvers defies description; it has to be experienced.”

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THE AUVERS-SUR-OISE FESTIVAL One of the most prestigious music festivals of Europe…


The Banks of the Oise


The launch of a major community project

Daubigny was a precursor and ardent champion of the Impressionists

as well as a specialist painter of river scenes. In the words of the great

novelist Emile Zola, he was “that marvellous painter who so accurately

captured the riverside scenes of the Seine and the Oise”. Before Monet,

whom he inspired, he had the first boat built that was equipped with

a studio-cabin. He called it “Le Botin”. From 1857 he could be seen

organizing cruises on the boat with his son Karl and painter friends. He

went as far as Compiègne on the Oise, as well as along the Aisne, the

Yonne, and the Seine all the way to Honfleur.

His work was admired by Van Gogh who paid homage to him by painting

“Daubigny’s Garden”.

Historic referents: The Raskin-Daubigny family (descendants of Daubigny)

Project supervision: The ‘SEQUANA Association’, run by voluntary members and collaborating with residents of

Auvers-sur-Oise. The Association (using the Latin name for the River Seine) specializes in the preservation of marine

heritage, the restoring of late nineteenth century river boats and the building of replicas.

Project client: Municipality of Auvers-sur-Oise

The project will be the subject of a 52 minute documentary from start to finish so that all phases of the building and

a record of the craftsmanship involved will be saved for posterity. The public will be invited to witness key technical

moments in the building of the boat from time to time.

The 2016 tourist season in Auvers-sur-Oise will see work starting on the building of a full-scale replica of the famous studio-boat used on the Oise by Charles-François Daubigny (1817-1878).

You too can be involved in this exceptional project by sponsoring our boat-builders’ workshop and making a valuable personal contribution to the preservation of our historical, artistic and river heritage.

Estimated cost of the project: €15 000 inclusive

PRESS AND P.R. Catherine Galliot - Office de tourisme-Park Van Gogh [email protected]+33 (0) 6 71 40 30 03www.tourisme-auverssuroise.fr

further information: www.tourisme-auverssuroise.fr


In the footsteps of Van Gogh Along the banks of the Oise

A Team of Professionals at Work! Your Chance to Meet the Enthusiasts!

A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY: 1st MAY 2016

FURTHER INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS: Offi ce de tourisme / Tourist Offi ce +33 (0)1 30 36 71 81 [email protected]

Ever since 2014 the town of Auvers-sur-Oise in collaboration with the Ile-de-France Regional Tourist Committee (RTC) and the Institut Van Gogh has assembled each season’s cultural activities round the theme “In the footsteps of Van Gogh”.

In 2016 the focus will be on the Oise as an inspiration to artists.

The towns of Pontoise, Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône, Mériel, Méry-sur-Oise, Butry-sur-Oise, l’Isle Adam and Parmain are thus combining their attractions to follow “In the footsteps of Van Gogh – Along the banks of the Oise”.

A programme of festivities along the banks of the Oise has been arranged for the Summer months: dancing and music in the nineteenth century ‘Guinguette’ tradition, concerts and gigs, rowing, boat rides, recitals and sketches, pick-nicks, fi shing demonstrations, cycling, guided visits, historic games, races for all the family, etc.)A key event will be the start of the project to build a replica of Charles-François Daubigny’s famous studio-boat by a team of specialist craftsmen. They already have replicas of boats once belonging to the painter Caillebotte and the novelist Maupassant to their credit and will be working again under the aegis of the SEQUANA Association.

The Banks of the Oise

More Dates for your Diary

1st May 2016 The Oise Fête, boating activities, competitions,

demonstrations, regattas, rowing, cruising on the river,

fi shing, guinguette dancing and music, photos, all the

games of yesteryear, fun for all the family.

28 May 2016

Artists set up their easels along the Oise.

28 August 2016 A late Summer opportunity to enjoy the river Oise

with cruises and guided visits “in the footsteps of the

Impressionists“ and “in the footsteps of Van Gogh”.


Practical Information

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Getting to Auvers-sur-Oise from Paris


BY ROAD(28 kilometers (17 miles) from Porte Maillot or Porte de Clignancourt)

Take the motorway via Gennevilliers, La Défense or Porte de Clignancourt (Direction: “Cergy-Pontoise A15”). Follow the A15 in the direction of Cergy-Pontoise. Before reaching Cergy-Pontoise take the A115, (Direction “Amiens-Beauvais”), exit at Méry-sur-Oise centre, (Direction “Auvers-sur-Oise”).

EATING IN AUVERS-SUR-OISE

There is a choice of 19 cafés and restaurants in the village, catering for all tastes. For further details: www.tourisme.auverssurois.fr

BY RER AND BUS

Ligne C, direction Pontoise, get off at Pontoise Ligne A, direction Cergy-le-Haut, get off at Cergy-Préfecture From either station take bus 9507 in the direction of Parmain/Jouy le Comte, get off at the ‘Mairie’ of Auvers-sur-Oise.

ACCOMMODATION

In Auvers there is the Hostellerie du Nord 3 Star (8 rooms – Logis de France), five bed and breakfasts, five tourist furnished hostel rooms, six rural ‘gites’ and a campsite. New this year: the barge hotel “Daphné” For further details: www.tourisme-auverssuroise.fr

BY TRAINall sites participating in the 2016 cultural season are within walking distance of the station

• From 26 March to 30 October 2016 inclusive: special train service “In the footsteps of Van Gogh”: Every Saturday, Sunday and public holiday a direct train from Gare du Nord to Auvers, leaving at 9.38 and arriving at 10.21.Return journey: leaving Auvers 18.25, arriving Paris Gare du Nord 18.55.(consult www.transilien.com for confirmation of train times) • Train routes Mondays to Fridays, during rest of the year: Take line H Paris Gare du Nord, change at Valmondois for Auvers-sur-Oise Or take line J Paris Gare Saint-Lazare to Pontoise, then line H to Auvers-sur-Oise Paris metro stations to RER line C to Pontoise, then line H to Auvers-sur-Oise


Two highly recommended excursions to Auvers from Paris

The excursion lasts 7h30 (from 9h30 to 17h) and is available from

2nd March to 30 October 2016, Wednesdays to Sundays.

The commentary can be in French or English. Also German, Spanish,

Italian, by arrangement.

Cost 320 € per person (on the basis of 3 passengers per car). Two

half bottles of champagne are included in the package.

The same excursion is on offer on a self-drive basis (2 CV), with roadbook

(but the champagne comes only with the driver-guide version)

Cost 120 € per person (on the basis of 4 passengers maximum capacity in 2CV)

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A guided excursion with a driver in a 2CV convertible.

The visit to Auvers begins in the Château with an interactive video show “Journey to the Age of the Impressionists” with lunch to follow. Then the Auberge Ravoux is visited and the winding streets of the village which appealed so much to Van Gogh’s imagination, resulting notably in his famous painting of the church. Then the visit heads for L’Isle Adam along the Oise Valley, and finally Pontoise in the footsteps of Pissarro. Visitors are treated to 2 half bottles of champagne as part of the package.

AUVERS-SUR-OISE: IMPRESSIONISM BY CITROEN 2 CHEVAUX – 4 WHEELS AND AN UMBRELLA

Starting from your Paris address or Place de la Concorde

From 1 April to 31 October 2016

Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, (save in exceptional circumstances)

Duration of tour: 9½ hours, including pickup and return to any

address in Paris.

Commentary in French (Saturdays only), English, Spanish and

Portuguese (Wednesdays, and Sundays)

Cost: from 210 € per person (children 3 –11 years: 150 euros)

Possibility of minibus private hire (except Monday and Tuesday)

Commentary in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese.

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The first part of the tour is spent in Giverny visiting Monet’s house, studio and garden with its famous Japanese bridge. The nearby Museum of the Impressionists is also visited. After lunch the tour sets off for Auvers-sur-Oise for a guided visit of the village where Van Gogh lived the last 70 days of his life and painted some of his most famous pictures. The Auberge Ravoux can also be visited, including the tiny attic room where the artist lived and died.

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Auvers Heritage Project


AUVERS HERITAGE PROJECT

Auvers enjoys a worldwide reputation for the quality of its

architectural heritage, but it needs expensive restoration work. Even

with the support of the Department of Val d’Oise and of the Ile-de-

France Region, the Auvers council cannot muster soon enough the

necessary funds to restore and enhance the village.

Restoring Auvers is the ambition of us all. AUVERS HERITAGE

PROJECT is launching private fund-raising projects for specific

restoration works in the village. “Stones for Auvers” (“Des

pierres pour Auvers”) is the slogan for our campaign.

The AUVERS HERITAGE PROJECT Society

has been founded to make a financial contribution via several

strategies:

Encouraging individual gifts and initiatives to restore the most

emblematic parts of the village, and acting in conjunction with

the Heritage Foundation for the more ambitious projects;

Recruiting sponsorship from among the local, national and

international business community and ensuring that the

relationship between sponsors and local residents flourishes.

The Society is currently focusing on the picturesque rue de la

Sansonne and its surroundings, where restoration work and

enhancement are needed. The rue de la Sansonne is a major

link between key sites of the village’s natural and architectural

heritage.

A society founded according to the legislation of 1901 with the purpose of raising funds to restore Auvers.

PROJECT

AUVERS HERITAGE PROJECT Office de Tourisme, parc Van Gogh38 rue du général De Gaulle95430 Auvers-sur-Oise

[email protected]


Val d’Oise,Source of Inspiration


The country landscapes, picturesque villages and the small towns of Val d’Oise were an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Impressionist painters.

A great number of them came to Val d’Oise to immortalize rural scenes, light effects in authentic natural settings and daily life in the villages.

Van Gogh is the best known, but also Pissarro, Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, Daubigny, Monet and Manet. The titles of numerous Impressionist paintings recall Val d’Oise places such as Auvers-sur-Oise, Argenteuil, Pontoise and the River Seine and River Oise.

The Val d’Oise towns and villages received many Impressionist painters on visit from Paris to set up their easels. Several actually came to live there: Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise, Pissarro and Cézanne in Pontoise, Monet in Argenteuil and then Vétheuil before finally settling in Giverny.

These towns were at the time scarcely more than big villages, and surrounded by fields they combined a rural setting with modernity. The Impressionists had a fertile stimulus to paint daily life in the countryside, but at the same time the contemporary world was also present.

Many Impressionist masters came to Argenteuil: Pissarro, Renoir, Caillebotte, Manet, and Monet actually lived there for a while. Some major canvases had their origins there, for example Monet’s famous “Coquelicots” (Red Poppies). And the town was in fact chosen by the Impressionists as the place in which to set up their “Association of Impressionist Painters” in 1873, which is testimony enough to the town’s importance for that artistic movement.

Pontoise - a ‘City of Art and History’- particularly appealed to Pissarro, who settled there, and invited other artists such as Cézanne and Gauguin to visit him. The town’s river banks along the Oise were a source of inspiration, just like the streets and alleys of the town itself.

Art is a time-honoured tradition in Val d’Oise, which is fertile in haunting natural and urban settings as sources of inspiration.Val d’Oise is a land where great art blooms.

VAL D’OISE TOURISM-PRESS AND P.RLaurent Demontoux+33 (0) 1 30 73 39 [email protected] administrative Jacques Lemercier5, avenue de la Palette - 95 000 CERGY PONTOISEwww.valdoise-tourisme.com

Ludovic Piette, Le marché de Pontoise, 1876 (Musees de Pontoise)


«Destination Impressionism» Paris Ile-de-France / Normandie


In December 2014 a tourist contract was signed by the two Regional Tourist Boards of Normandy and Paris/

Ile-de-France together with their partners. It was entitled “Normandy – Paris Ile-de-France: Destination

Impressionism” and had the role of developing world-class tourism on the Impressionist theme in the two

neighbouring regions. To this day there are 53 signatories to the contract.

The contract has an initial projected life of five years. Its signatories are contracted to develop tourist

activities, with particular attention to be paid to travel facilities and itineraries linking the sites. Attention

too is to be paid to the overall quality of this unique tourist destination, the promoting of a policy of

specific events, active collaboration, and an awareness of the economic factors of the whole enterprise.

2015 saw the successful launch of this collaborative venture and there were a number of positive

developments: the first “Destination Impressionism” Forum brought together 140 participants in Giverny; a

joint promotional plan was devised to target the Japanese and American markets; the first ever collaboration

with the Musée Marmottan Monet (Paris) was developed in connexion with its travelling exhibition in

Japan; and the ‘Guide du Routard’ Publishers undertook to bring out their first volume dedicated to La

destination impressionisme in the Spring of this year, 2016. Finally, with support from the French National

Development Fund, two studies were set up to provide a definition of Tourist Destination Strategy and

Brand Image Creation. Their findings will be published in 2016 at the next “Destination Impressionism”

Forum which takes place in Ile-de-France in June of this year.

The Paris Region Tourist Board (PRTB / CRT) also gives full support to tourism associated with Van Gogh. It

has been publicising the cultural season in Auvers-sur-Oise for some years, in partnership with the Institut

Van Gogh and the Auvers Tourist Office. It is also promoting the new initiative of the Montmartre Tourist

Office on the Van Gogh theme.

Finally the PRTB / CRT) is also giving full support to the ‘Van Gogh Europe’ international network which

links France with partners in Belgium and the Netherlands, and for which European COSME funding has

been obtained in 2016.

Destination Impressionism: Paris Ile-de-France / Normandy - a French tourist destination with a world-class brand image

Van Gogh – a major tourist attraction

Regional Tourist Board / Comité Régional du Tourisme11, rue du Faubourg Poissonnière - 75009 Paris www.idfutees.com


The Paris Region Tourist Board is the leading tour operator in the region. It has the responsibility for

promoting and developing Paris and the surrounding Ile-de-France area by providing the essential link

between tourist professionals and the tourists and visitors.

The Board supplies the resources, tools and background networks to enable tourist professionals in Paris

and Ile-de-France to ensure that there is high-quality and innovative tourism throughout the region. In

an increasingly competitive and ‘globalized’ universe, the role of the PRTB is to construct a strategy for

maintaining and enhancing the prestige of Paris and Ile-de-France as a tourist destination.

In 2016 the PRTB (CRT) has launched a website www.idfutees.com (‘idées futées’ means ‘smart ideas’)

intended for all those in the Ile-de-France region. The website is the “official supplier of good plans in

Paris and Ile-de-France”. Its purpose is thus to give official backing to a full and varied programme of

leisure activities and festivities, and all other sporting and cultural events throughout the region.

CONTACTCatherine BarnouinDirector, Press and P.R.Head [email protected]

Further information: pro.visitparisregion.com

The Paris Region Tourist Board

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The Musée d’OrsayIn the footsteps of Van Gogh - Auvers-sur-Oise

Van Gogh in the permanent collection

DATESThe whole year

PLACEMusée d’Orsay

The Musée d’Orsay has 24 Van Goghs in its permanent collection. The majority of them date from the time when the artist was living in France and show his artistic development over a period of fifteen years, starting in Paris and ending in Auvers-sur-Oise.

From among the works dating from Van Gogh’s first Paris period the Museum possesses five paintings, including a Self-portrait from 1887, the Italian Woman, The Sirène (Mermaid) Restaurant in Asnières, and Fritillaries. The colours and light effects in these canvases show the Impressionist influence on Van Gogh when he first came to Paris.

The highlight of the Musée d’Orsay’s Van Gogh collection consists of nine canvases dating from the artist’s time in the south of France.

Van Gogh’s experience at that time inspired some of his finest work: Van Gogh’s Room in Arles, Siesta Time, Starry Night and the 1889 Self-portrait. This particular self-portrait has acquired iconic status, and is used emblematically for the whole of the Musée d’Orsay in its media representation and advertising. All of the works from this period bear the mark of the artist’s genius, which is all too often ascribed to his mental problems, whereas in fact the driving force is his lucidity as an artist, showing him the necessity of going beyond Impressionism and discovering his own unique way forward.

From the last period in Van Gogh’s life, a mere two months in Auvers-sur-Oise - short but immensely productive - the Musée d’Orsay has seven pictures in its collection. One of the best known is certainly Doctor Paul Gachet, the portrait of the man who, at the request of the artist’s brother Theo, looked after Vincent during these last few months of his life.

Dr Gachet collected pictures by Pissarro and Cézanne and also several by Van Gogh which became part of the Musée d’Orsay’s collection, thanks to a donation by the Gachet family in 1954. An emblematic work of this period is the Church of Auvers-sur-Oise. Through the use of richly expressive colour and swirling, moving lines, Van Gogh transforms a humble village church into a dramatic artistic subject in which intense colour conveys the emotion overwhelming the artist and the darkness that lies ahead of him.

Van Gogh’s works are on display at the middle level of the museum, in the first rooms of the Neo- and Post-Impressionist gallery, which was completely redesigned in 2011.

ENTRANCE CHARGES12 € full rate9 € reduced rateFree for under 18s and European Union citizens under 26

Vincent van Gogh

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The Museum’s home, the building that houses it, is an unusual one. The Musée d’Orsay is situated in the heart of Paris, along the Left Bank (Rive Gauche) of the Seine, facing the Tuileries gardens on the Right Bank. It occupies the former railway terminus, the Gare d’Orsay, which was built for the World’s Fair (‘Exposition Universelle’) of 1900. The building can thus in a sense be considered to be the first work in the Museum’s collection which consists of art from the decades stretching from 1848 to 1914.

The Musée d’Orsay is famed for its superb collection of Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist art, but it also possesses an outstanding collection of Second Empire work as well as rich collections of photographs and the decorative arts.

ADDRESS1 rue de la Légion d’Honneur (museum entrance)75007 Paris+33 (0)1 40 49 48 14

OPENING TIMESTuesday to Sunday: 9h30 - 1800Thursday 9h30 - 21h45Closed on Mondays and 1 May, 25 December

GETTING TO THE MUSEE D’ORSAYMetro: line 12, Get off at Solférino stationRER: line C, Direct to Musée d’OrsayBus: 24, 63, 68, 69, 73, 83, 84, 94Taxi: Drop-off and pick-up point for taxis and other hired vehicles on the adjacent Quai Anatole-France

Further transport details: www.ratp.fr

CONTACT / P.RAmélie Hardivillier, Head of Public Relations +33 (0)1 40 49 48 [email protected]

TOURIST RELATIONSJean-Claude Lalumière +33 (0)1 40 49 48 [email protected]

PRESS RELATIONSMarie Dussaussoy +33 (0)1 40 49 49 96 [email protected]

Further information: www.musee-orsay.fr

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In the footsteps of Van Gogh …Th e Offi cial Tourism Offi ce of Montmartre

«In the Footsteps of Van Gogh in Montmartre»

«In the Footsteps of Van Gogh in Montmartre»

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FOR INDIVIDUALS

Vincent spent two years with his brother Théo in the village of Montmartre in 1886-1888. The famous ‘butte’ (hill) was a source of inspiration for him and during these two years Van Gogh painted 200 pictures, more than during any other period of his life. A brand new on-street information point has been installed to help the visitor in the rue des Saules where fi ve information panels describe the career of this famous itinerant artist. Relive Van Gogh’s experience in Montmartre in the Age of the Impressionists!All year round. Fee: 20 € per person for a visit lasting 1h30Further information: www.montmartre-guide.com/vangogh

DOWNLOAD «IMPRESSIONIST STROLL THROUGH MONTMARTRE»

This is an interactive visit which you can download to your smartphone or tablet, designed for all lovers of the Impressionists, the painters of light. It’s a living collection of memories and impressions which will take you back to the world of the artists and their cabaret haunts as you stroll through these busy parts of Montmartre, artists’ studios and places favoured by Van Gogh – and of course not forgetting Renoir, Pissarro and Degas.You will also be able to discover our new on-street information point in the rue des Saules: fi ve information panels describing the career of this famous itinerant artist.Relive Van Gogh’s experience in Montmartre in the Age of the Impressionists!!All year round. Fee: 2.99 € Available in English, Russian and JapaneseDownloadable on: www.montmartre-guide.com/balade-impressioniste

SAMPLE «MONTMARTRE SPECIAL VAT» ABSINTH

This is your chance to take part in an absinth tasting (‘Montmartre special vat’), following a demonstration of the time-honoured ritual. You will learn the full history of the “Green Fairy”, which was the favourite drink of the Montmartre artists surrounding Van Gogh.Tall Year Round. Fee: 7,50 € per person to discover the famous libation. Tastings are also possible in the following restaurants: La Mascotte, l’Entracte, la Bonne Franquette, le Bon Bock, La Pomponette.Further Information: www.montmartre-guide.com/absinthe

CABARET EVENING IN MONTMARTRE – DINNER AND CABARET

After your exploration of Montmartre and Absinth Tasting, why not fi nish the evening with dinner and a cabaret show in Montmartre? A choice of establishments available on request, price between 50 and 60 € per person.Bookings in Montmartre Village. Tel +33 (0)1 42 62 22 21 21

SAMPLE “MONTMARTRE SPECIAL VAT” ABSINTH

This is your chance to take part in an absinth tasting (‘Montmartre special vat’), following a demonstration of the time-honoured ritual. You will learn the full history of the “Green Fairy”, which was the favourite drink of the Montmartre artists surrounding Van Gogh.All Year Round. Fee: 7,50 € per person to discover the famous libation. Tastings are also possible in the following restaurants: La Mascotte, l’Entracte, la Bonne Franquette, le Bon Bock, La Pomponette.Further Information: www.montmartre-guide.com/absinthe

2016 Season


Further information about Van Gogh events in Montmartre:

The Montmartre Tourist Board in partnership with the Paris Regional Tourist Board exists to welcome all visitors, whether individuals or professional groups. They can be assured of all the help and guidance they need to discover – or rediscover- the cultural heritage of Montmartre, as it was historically and as it is today.

ADDRESSSyndicat d’Initiative de Montmartre21, Place du Tertre - 75018 Paris+33 (0)1 42 62 21 21

OPENING HOURS [email protected] Daily 9am to 6pm http://www.montmartre-guide.com

See Montmartre from another angle on request:• Theme-based tours of the village• Go-where-you-like or made-to-measure arrangements

Montmartre from the inside – and from the top

We can take you to complete your visit by sipping absinth in a historic environment: the Bon Bock restaurant or the Auberge de la Bonne Franquette (“The No Frills Inn”!)

Absinth tasting

The Official Tourism Office of Montmartre


Documents

VAN GOGH AT THE RIVER’S EDGE · Van Gogh’s career was full of twists and turns and eventually led him to the small town of Auvers-sur-Oise. The landscapes that he painted there,