Alexandra van Dongen, a Dutch curator and art historian, spent the lockdown trying to locate everyday objects in Van Gogh’s drawings and paintings from the beginning of his artistic life to his death in France in 1890 at the age of 37. “So much has been written about Van Gogh’s work, but the everyday objects in his art turned out to be barely explored,” he told Amsterdam’s. The slogan newspaper. “During my research I often had the impression that I was looking over the painter’s shoulder.” Her discoveries, in a new book and report, Closer to
