Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

Although Van Gogh’s artistic career spanned just 10 years, he was a prolific painter, with an output of about 2,100 works, including some 860 oil paintings in the last two years of his life alone. This exhibition focuses on two major influences on his work—the Hague School and the Impressionists. Van Gogh was taught by fellow Dutch painters in the Hague School at the early stages of his career. He moved to Paris three years later, where he encountered the Impressionists, whose brushwork and use of bright colors influenced his later work. Along with roughly 50 of Van Gogh’s paintings, are 30 works by his contemporaries, including Cézanne and Monet. Borrowed from 27 institutions in 10 countries, many of these works are being shown in Japan for the first time.