Vincent van Gogh's display at Les XX, 1890
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Vincent Van Gogh was displayed at the 1890 Les XX exhibition—an invitation-only show exclusively for members—in Brussels, Belgium. This served to demonstrate the recognition Van Gogh received from his avant-garde peers during his life. The choices of his works and their arrangements illustrated his thinking about his years of work in Provence.
His argument for their importance was rejected, and was washed away by the scandal his works provoked.[citation needed] The same works were again shown at the annual exhibition of the Artistes Indépendants in Paris which offered space for an expansion of the display.[citation needed] This was done by Theo van Gogh, Vincent's brother, as Vincent was suffering from long-lasting mental problems.
Ivy, the centerpiece of Van Gogh's arrangement, has been lost without trace since World War II. Hermann Göring is the last person photographed (by Hans Hoffmann) with this canvas while it was stored, together with other works of art confiscated from French Jewish collections, in the Jeu de Paume Galleries.[citation needed]