Despite the world-wide popularity of Van Gogh’s artwork, the Philadelphia Museum’s exhibition ‘Van Gogh: Face to Face’ is the first comprehensive exhibition to focus solely on Van Gogh’s evolving approach to portraiture throughout his tragically brief life. Shown together for the first time are five significant portraits of postman Joseph Roulin and his family, who were Van Gogh’s most frequent and loyal models during the artist’s sojourn in Arles in 1888. The exhibition also features a series of intense self-portraits, which Van Gogh painted while living in Paris from 1886-1887.
