SaveTheDifference: February 6, 2014

Princess Mary participated in the opening of the Ordrupgaard Exhibition

The Crown Princess opened the exhibition at the museum Ordrupgaard showing 60 works by artists Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Bernard. After opening the Crown Princess and the other guests had the possibility to view the exhibition.

The exhibition provides an insight into the friendship between Van Gogh and Gauguin and the subsequent rift between the two artists in 1888, the exhibition also includes the artist Émile Bernard's works.

In 2009 on a Danish State Visit to Vietnam with Queen Margrethe, Prince Henrik, and her husband, Princess Mary had the opportunity to prove just that. The two ladies visited the Ba Trang Phomax Ceramics Factory, and participated in painting some ceramic plates and mugs, decorating them and signing their names.

Queen Margrethe, being an artist, was much more at ease with painting than her daughter-in-law, she still managed to finish painting several items though.

Mary on her first piece supposedly exclaimed: “My goodness, this is something of a task”!

Queen Margrethe painted mugs for the Crown Prince and two of her grandchildren, Christian & Isabella..awww, what a thoughtful queen and grandmother Queen Margrethe is.

Wonder who the bowl was for that Mary painted on?

Anyhoooo...here we go!