THE ARBUTURIAN

RADICAL HARMONY: HELENE KROLLER-MULLER'S NEO-IMPRESSIONISTS

A landmark exhibition 'Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists' has opened at the National Gallery, London (13-September 2025- 8 February 2026).

Kröller-Müller was one of the first female collectors of modern art in the twentieth century. She wasn't keen on Impressionism but loved Neo-Impressionism. Superb  Neo-Impressionist artworks, from the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo are on temporary loan to the National Gallery.
Before stepping out to see it, read a review - published online in The Arbuturian - free to read.

Radical Harmony: Neo-Impressionism at The National Gallery | The Arbuturian

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Welcome to another world – Kröller-Müller Museum

On carousel: Georges Seurat's Chahut [Can-Can], 1889-90, (detail) ,on its first visit to England.
Image © Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands.
Photographer: Rik Klein Gotin

THE GOOD LIFE FRANCE

ART DECO

It is one-hundred years since Les Arts Decoratifs (Art Deco) was officially launched at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) in Paris. The show ran for six months from April - October 1925 with 16 million visitors attending. This year France celebrates the centenary. Read about the fabulous Art Deco era in the equally fabulous magazine The Good Life France, Autumn edition, pp.80-83.

Here: The Good Life France - Read Online

On carousel: 

The Art Deco municipal swimming pool built 1927-1932, now a museum in Roubaix, near Lille, France

Image copyright The Good Life France 2025

Histoire de la Piscine de Roubaix - Musée de La Piscine de Roubaix

ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS

LIFE ON THE LAND

The French painter Jean-Francois Millet (1814-75) was one of the most important artists of the mid nineteenth-century in France. His paintings focused on agricultural workers: the seed sowers, the winnowers, the woodcutters, the shepperdesses and milkmaids, showing the manual lives of peasants who worked on the land. At the National Gallery, London - until 19 October 2025 -a compact, fabulous exhibition -free to visit- has opened, highlighting Millet's paintings and his understanding of the agricultural life in France c 1850-70s. Millet -Life on the Land is worth seeing. AND read about it too in 'Life on the Land', in Artists & Illustrators magazine (Sepember issue, on sale now).

Millet: Life on the Land | Exhibitions | National Gallery, London

On carousel Artists & Illustrators magazine - double-page extract pp38-39

THE ARBUTURIAN

ARNHEM: A CITY OF QUIET SURPRISES

A stay in Arnhem, Holland has to be one of the most relaxing city visits. I stayed in the historic centre to tour the city, and then to visit the fabulous Kroller-Muller art museum in Otterlo, about 30 minutes journey south of Arnhem. I want to go again. Soon.

Get to know Arnhem, a lovely city, in The Arbuturian - published online 2 August 2025 - free to read. 

Arnhem: A City of Quiet Surprises | The Arbuturian

Welcome to another world – Kröller-Müller Museum

on carousel: 

* Old Post Office on Jansplein, built 1889. It's now a social venue; music, and a bar-restaurant with 100 different beers and 80 wines- self-serve on tap. (image R.Ormiston)

* Maarten van Rossum House 16th-century - the Mayor of Arnhem's house, known as ‘The Devil’s House’, for the satyr lifesize sculptures. (image R.Ormiston)

THE NEW WORLD

TWICE IN A LIFETIME

Two artists, the Norwegian painter Anna-Eva Bergman and Leipzig-born Hans Hartung, fell in love, married, parted, married other people, divorced them and remarried each other. During years together and apart, they created phenomenal art. An exhibition at Prague's Kunsthalle 'Anna-Eva Bergman & Hans Hartung: And We'll Never Be Parted', explores their extraodinary lives and art (until 13 October 2025). Read about them in The New World, July 3 2025, issue 442, pp.30-31.

https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/rosalind-ormiston-anna-eva-bergman-and-hans-hartung-the-two-quiet-giants-of-the-art-world/

on carousel:

1) Alain Cinquini   Hans Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman, Antibes, 1985   Gelatin silver print   17.3 × 23.3 cm   Alain Cinquini © OOA-S 2025 

2) The New World, July 3, 2025, issue 442, pp.30-31. © The New World, 2025.