Vincent van Gogh, the sketchbooks and more… (Collector's Edition)

A story of dedication, passion, and craftsmanship unfolds around the four remaining sketchbooks of Vincent van Gogh – fragile witnesses to a short but extraordinary artistic career.

In the ten years that encompassed his artistic life, Van Gogh laid the foundations of his exceptional art. These sketchbooks are not mere paper collections, but the intimate diaries of an artist in the making. They reveal the initial stages of works that would later become world-famous, and show the process of a genius who taught himself the craft firsthand.

However, their fragility is as great as their value. The light sensitivity of these documents forces the Van Gogh Museum to exercise great caution – the originals are exposed to daylight as little as possible to prevent further degradation.

But how do you share such precious heritage with the world? A brilliant solution presented itself: a team of Dutch experts dedicated themselves to an almost impossible task. With unprecedented precision and dedication, they would create exact replicas – not just copies, but almost metaphysical doubles of the original sketchbooks.

Every detail was studied and copied: from the smallest smudges to the subtle tears, from the wear of the elastic to the texture of the paper. The result is astonishing: facsimiles that are barely distinguishable from the originals even to expert eyes.

Thanks to this monumental effort, the museum can now display the sketchbooks to the public. Moreover, art lovers now have the unique opportunity to literally 'bring Van Gogh into their homes', to behold his first artistic breaths up close.

It is more than a reproduction. It is a tribute to art, to the artist, to the process of creation itself.