Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard

The catalogue to a traveling exhibition, Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard explores Van Gogh’s relationships and interactions with a disparate group of painters — Seurat, Signac, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pissarro, and Gauguin, among others — who gathered together to discuss and debate new ideas and approaches, to inspire and challenge each other. Van Gogh described the influential coterie as being of the “petit boulevard,” thereby distinguishing them from the inhabitants of the “grand boulevard,” the more famous and affluent Impressionists.