NYT: Fragile Van Gogh Drawings See the Light

AMSTERDAM — Stars swirling in a deep blue night, aureate sunflowers, sun-choked fields of wheat — Vincent van Gogh loved to capture light and all of its transforming properties. Yet light is also the enemy of more than half the artist’s works, those that can fade, turn yellow or become brittle if exposed to it for too long.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/arts/Van-Gogh-Drawings-See-the-Light.html?_r=1&

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