(Paris) The Musée d’Orsay in Paris announced on Thursday a “historic record” of attendance with 794,000 visitors for the Van Gogh exhibition event in Auvers-sur-Oise which ended on February 4.
“Presented from October 3, 2023 to February 4, 2024, the exhibition attracted 793,556 visitors, or a daily average of 7,181 visitors over 108 days of opening,” the museum said in a press release.
“This is the best exhibition attendance since the opening of the museum (in 1986, Editor’s note) ahead of Edvard Munch. A poem of life, love and death in 2022 (724,414 visitors) and Picasso. Blue and pink in 2018 (670,667 visitors),” he added.
Titled Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise, the last monthsthis exhibition focused on the last moments of this sacred monster of painting in this small town near Paris where he committed suicide in a field in 1890, at the age of 37, after having painted 74 paintings in 70 days.
Among them, iconic paintings like Doctor Paul Gachet, The church of Auvers-sur-OiseTHE Corn field with crows Or Roots.
It was the first major exhibition devoted to the works produced by Van Gogh during the last two months of his life and the “culmination of years of research”, according to the museum.