The Arts Society Haslemere invites you to a talk presented by Stephen Duffy.

The talk is entitled VAN GOGH and GAUGIN in ARLES.

The extraordinary story of the nine weeks that Van Gogh and Gauguin spent together in Arles in southern France in 1888 is one of the most famous in the whole history of art. So many powerful emotions are swept up in it while of course it also led to some of the most celebrated paintings of early modern art. The encounter between these two tempestuous characters, including new research on the episode of Van Gogh cutting off his ear, forms the fascinating subject of this lecture which also places the artists' stay in Arles in the context of their careers and within the wider history of late nineteenth-century painting.  No lecture could have a more glorious range of dazzling paintings.

Arrive at 1.45pm for 2pm start.