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Summary

Vincent van Gogh: Orphan Man, Wearing a Blouse, with Broom and Pipe

Artist



Alternative names	Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description	Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death	30 March 1853	29 July 1890
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	: Q5582 VIAF: 9854560 ISNI: 0000000120955689 ULAN: 500115588 LCCN: n79022935 NLA: 35130087 WorldCat

Title

Orphan Man, Wearing a Blouse, with Broom and Pipe

Object type

drawing

Date

1882 (between October and December))

Medium

pencil and wash on paper (pencil with white heightening and wash on paper [per Christie's lot notes])

Dimensions

height: 50 cm (19.6 in); width: 22 cm (8.6 in)

Collection

Private collection

Object history

M. de Zwart, Voorburg, Netherlands [per Christie's lot notes and following].
Hubert Paulus, Baron van Tuyll van Serooskerken, Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands.
Anon. sale, Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 26 November 1913, lot 123.
E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.
Acquired by Peter Matthiessen c. 1952
Sale Christie's, New York, 5 November 2014: Price realized $341,000 _{includes Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium}

Exhibition history

Amsterdam, E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Peinture française XIXe et XXe siècle, April-May 1949, no. 23 [per Christie's lot notes].

Notes

Catalogues raisonnés:
F996: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 996 .
JH283 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no. 283.
The model is Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland, Vincent's favourite model at this time, an almsman known in those days as "orphan men". Vincent had a stash of clothes for his models and in this case dressed Zuyderland in a billowing artist's smock suggesting, as Christie's lot notes comments, a certain empathy between the pair. The lot notes record that the drawing was purchased around 1952 by the writer Peter Matthiessen, who had been given $1,500 by his grandmother as a wedding gift with the instruction to purchase something significant with the money. He chose this drawing from a gallery in Paris where he was staying.

References

Steven Naifeh; Gregory White Smith (2011) Van Gogh: The Life, Profile Books ISBN: 978-1846680106.
W. Vanbeselaere, De hollandsche periode (1880-1885) in het werk van Vincent van Gogh, Antwerp, 1937, pp. 92, 185 and 409, no. 966 (titled Man met Bezem and dated November 1882) [per Christie's lot notes and following]..
V.W. van Gogh and J. van Gogh-Bonger, eds., The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, London, 1958, vol. I, pp. 463-467 and 470-473, nos. 235-236 and 238; vol. III, pp. 333-336, no. R14.
J.-B. de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam, 1970, p. 368, no. F996 (illustrated; dated October-November 1882).
J. Hulsker, The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, New York, 1980, p. 71, no. 283 (illustrated).
J.-B. de la Faille and A. Wofsy, eds., Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Works on Paper, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1992, vol. I, p. 257, no. 996 (illustrated, vol. II, pl. XLIII; titled Orphan Man with a Broom and dated October-November 1882).
J. Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh, Paintings, Drawings, Sketches: Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Vincent van Gogh, Philadelphia, 1996, p. 71, no. 283 (illustrated; dated December 1882).
L. Jansen, H. Luijten and N. Bakker, eds., The Letters, The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition: The Hague, 1881-1883, London, 2009, vol. 2, pp. 162-164 and 167-172, nos. 268 and 270-272.

Source/Photographer

Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5840860 (sale 2888, lot 17, New York, 5 November 2014)

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