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The Netherlands is trying to organize the largest exhibition ever of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings next year to mark the 100th anniversary of his death. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, with approximately 200 Van Goghs in its own storerooms, is planning to borrow at least 120 others from abroad worth an estimated $3 billion. The Kroeller-Mueller Museum in Otterlo, 55 miles east of Amsterdam, and from which two Van Goghs were stolen last December, will exhibit at least 230 drawings flown in from all over the world. Organizer Frits Becht said security would be massive during the four-month exhibition that is to end July 30, 1990, the centenary anniversary of the Dutch painter’s death.