AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.- The Van Gogh Museum presents "Van Gogh & Gauguin", on view through June 2, 2002. The Van Gogh Museum is organising this unique presentation in close cooperation with the Art Institute of Chicago. Van Gogh & Gauguin will be on view in Chicago from 22 September 2001 to 13 January 2002. This presentation includes around twenty works from the Van Gogh Museum collection, including Van Gogh's Sunflowers and the Yellow House, which are therefore temporarily not on display in Amsterdam. In the Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum the exhibition Van Gogh & Gauguin will be open from 9 February 2002 - 2 June 2002. The exhibition looks in detail at the relationship between Van Gogh and Gauguin in the context of their lives and work. From the moment they met in Paris through Theo van Gogh, similarities in the style and subject matter of their paintings quickly became evident. Van Gogh made ambitious plans to found an artists' colony in Arles, the Studio of the South, which would breathe new life into French art. He finally succeeded in persuading Gauguin to join him in Arles. This marked the beginning of a brief but intense period of collaboration in the famous Yellow House, which lasted from October to December 1888. When they parted company after the dramatic quarrel, each found it almost impossible to escape the other's influence.