Exhibit Reveals Van Gogh and Gauguin's Stormy Relationship. (Chicago)

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The sometimes-nurturing, sometimes-turbulent artistic and personal relationship between Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin is the subject of a new major exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. Entitled "The Studio of the South," the exhibit takes its name from the nine-week period in 1888 during which van Gogh and Gauguin lived and worked together in Arles in the south of France. It features 107 paintings, 19 works on paper and nine sculptural objects.

The exhibit focuses on works created by van Gogh and Gauguin beginning with the time they met in Paris in 1887 through the weeks spent together in Arles and up to van Gogh's death in Auvers in 1890. Also featured are earlier …