Museum rivalry ‘could make Dutch Vermeer show last of its kind’
by Daniel Boffey in Brussels from World news | The Guardian on (#5SK5B)
Rijksmuseum aims to bring together all the works by Girl with a Pearl Earring painter that are fit to travel
Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has announced a first and last" exhibition of all the paintings by Johannes Vermeer that are fit to travel, as its director claimed growing museum rivalry makes such international cooperation unlikely in the future.
Vermeer, whose most famous work is Girl with a Pearl Earring, dating from around 1665, is thought to have painted 35 masterpieces, of which 23 were shown together 26 years ago at the Mauritshuis in The Hague.
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