wrote of his bankruptcy in a letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, "De Profundis": "That all my charming things were to be sold: my Burne-Jones drawings: my Whistler drawings: my Monticelli: my Simeon Solomons: my china: my Library..." Others have expressed disdain for Monticelli's work. In a statement published in 2005 in The Guardian, Sir Timothy Clifford, director general of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, even chose Monticelli's A Garden Fete as the worst painting in Britain, and commented, "We have been bequested eight paintings by Monticelli, each one more hideous than the last. In my 21 years here, none has been hung because I think Monticelli produces screamingly awful art. I call this one a Fete Worse Than Death." A monument honoring Monticelli, designed in 1909 by the sculptor Auguste Carli, is installed in the Palais Longchamp Marseille. Exhibitions From September 2008 until January 2009, an exhibition entitled "Van Gogh and Monticelli" took place in Marseille's Centre de la Vieille Charité, highlighting Monticelli's influence on Van Gogh's work. From April 25 until September 27, 2015, an exhibition entitled "Van Gogh and Co. Criss-crossing the collection" at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, The Netherlands, displayed paintings by Van Gogh and his predecessors, contemporaries and followers, among them François Bonvin, Charley Toorop, Henri Fantin-Latour, Jean-Baptiste Corot, Paul Cézanne, Bart van der Leck and Adolphe Monticelli. Gallery Notes References Loan exhibition of paintings by Adolphe Monticelli. New York: Paul Rosenberg & Co. Catalogue no. 91, 1954. LC 73171702 Loan exhibition of paintings by Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886) November 15 to December 11, 1954 | Open Library Monticelli Ausstellungskatalog, Hamburger Kunsthalle, April - Mai 1966. [Text in German] Monticelli | Open Library Impressionism. (1973). New York, N.Y.: Chartwell Books Inc. Sheon, Aaron. Monticelli, his contemporaries, his influence. Pittsburgh: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 1978. LC 78060375 Monticelli, his contemporaries, his influence | Open Library Garibaldi, Charles, and Garibaldi, Mario. Monticelli. Geneva: Skira, 1991. [Text in French.] Turner, J. (2000). From Monet to Cézanne: late 19th-century French artists. Grove Art. New York: St Martin's Press. Stammegna, Nadine. Monticelli écrit par Van Gogh. Marseille: Transbordeurs, 2003. [Text in French] Raillard, Joseph. Monticelli l'étrange. Marseille: A. Dimanche, 2008. [Text in French] Catalogue of the Van Gogh - Monticelli exhibition. Paris, Editions RMN, 2008. Bibliography Arnaud d’Agnel, Gustave and Isnard, É. Monticelli, sa vie et son œuvre, Paris: Occitania, 1926. Gouirand, André. Les Peintres provençaux: Monticelli, 1900. Guidou,