File:Vincent van Gogh - Letter VGM 491 - The Yellow House F1453 JH 1590.jpg

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Vincent van Gogh: English: The Yellow House at Arles in letter VGM 691   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Vincent van Gogh  (1853–1890)  wikidata:Q5582 s:en:Author:Vincent van Gogh q:en:Vincent van Gogh
 
Vincent van Gogh
Alternative names
Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 30 March 1853 Edit this at Wikidata 29 July 1890 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Zundert Auvers-sur-Oise
Work period between circa 1880 and circa July 1890
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1890-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Netherlands (Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886
date QS:P,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
),
Paris (1886–1887), Arles (1888–1889),
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889–1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5582
Title
English: The Yellow House at Arles in letter VGM 691
Date 1888
date QS:P571,+1888-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium pen and ink
Dimensions height: 13 cm (5.1 in); width: 20.5 cm (8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,13U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,20.5U174728
Object history
  • Tanner Art Gallery, Zurich
  • Brienz, Switzerland, N. Dreher [acquired 1918]
  • Private collection, Europe (by descent from the above); sale, Christie's, London, 24 June 2003, lot 52
  • Present owner; sale, Christies's, New York, 5 November 2013, lot 16, $5,485,000
Exhibition history
  • Kunsthaus Zürich, Vincent van Gogh, July-August 1924, p. 36, no. 99.
  • Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings, July-December 2005, p. 286, no. 97 (recto illustrated in color, p. 287).
  • London, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters, January-April 2010, p. 180, no. 99 (recto illustrated in color, p. 181).
Notes

Catalogues raisonnés:

  • F1453: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 1453 .
  • JH1590 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no.  1590.
  • Letters
  • 691 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "Likewise croquis of a square no. 30 canvas showing the house and its surroundings under a sulphur sun, under a pure cobalt sky. That’s a really difficult subject! But I want to conquer it for that very reason. Because it’s tremendous, these yellow houses in the sunlight and then the incomparable freshness of the blue.
    All the ground’s yellow, too. I’ll send you another, better drawing of it than this croquis from memory; the house to the left is pink, with green shutters; the one that’s shaded by a tree, that’s the restaurant where I go to eat supper every day. My friend the postman lives at the bottom of the street on the left, between the two railway bridges. The night café that I painted isn’t in the painting; it’s to the left of the restaurant.
    Milliet finds it horrible ..."
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5737639 (sale 2788, lot 16)
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