For the exhibition on Sientje Mesdag-van Houten, that ran until 22 May 2000 at the Mesdag Panorama in The Hague, Johan Poort leant no less than twenty works.
The painting Les Brisants de la Mer du Nord by H.W. Mesdag was acquired in 1999 by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in a donation from Johan Poort, founder of the Mesdag Documentatie Stichting. As a philanthropist and collector, Poort came out publicly against the proposed tax on art.
For the exhibition on Sientje Mesdag-van Houten, that ran until 22 May 2000 at the Mesdag Panorama in The Hague, Johan Poort leant no less than twenty works.