La mirada de Vincent

ARTIKA, in conjunction with the Van Gogh Museum, pays homage to the great postimpressionist painter, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of his death, with an exclusive work that reveals the most private side of the artistic genius – his drawings. 

A unique edition that enables us to appreciate the Dutch painter’s style, expression and individual lines and strokes, it reproduces the complete collection of his sketchbooks that are conserved at the Van Gogh Museum, which has given its full endorsement to this limited, numbered work of 2,998 copies. 

The complete collection of the sketchbooks is made up of four artist’s notebooks, which include drafts made by the artist during his life as a painter, and another three, from an earlier stage, which have a mainly didactic purpose.

In addition, the work includes 17 plates from loose pages taken from sketchbooks that did not survive intact, in which the main focus is the colours the artist used for his scenes and landscapes of Paris and Amberes. 

The sketchbooks and the plates are presented in a case that has been specially created for this edition, and which features on its front cover a reproduction of a detail from his famous painting Sunflowers. La mirada de Vincent also includes a Study Book, in which leading specialists offer studies and analyses of the artist’s life and work which shed valuable light on one of the best-known and most-admired painters in the history of modern art. 

All the different elements in the work can be shown off in a display unit, which offers the user an infinite range of possibilities for displaying and enjoying the sketchbooks, the plates and the Study Book.