To coincide with the publication of the catalogue ‘The drawings and prints by Vincent van Gogh in the collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum’ the museum is displaying a large part of its collection of drawings by Van Gogh. The exhibition The riddle of ‘Double Ingres’ – Van Gogh’s drawings in the Kröller-Müller Museum reconsidered can be seen from October 11, 2007 until January 27, 2008. Because the drawings are extremely sensitive to light and can be displayed for limited periods only, now is the moment to see them.

Containing more than a hundred drawings, the exhibition – like the catalogue – charts Van Gogh’s development from the moment he decided to become an artist. The drawings are grouped to show his growing mastery of materials such as pencil, chalk and ink as well as the principles of perspective and his artistic expression. The exhibition’s title comes from a discovery made during research into the various sorts of paper used by Van Gogh and their watermarks. Discover the riddle’s solution in the exhibition.

This is the first time that a study has been devoted solely to Van Gogh’s drawings in the collection. In 2003 the museum published a catalogue of the museum’s collection of Van Gogh’s paintings. The two volumes make the most recent research into Van Gogh’s work available to all.