Lot 250
  • 250

Vincent van Gogh

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Description

  • Vincent van Gogh
  • L'HIVER
  • signed Vincent (lower right)
  • watercolour, pencil and crayon on paper
  • 20 by 38cm., 8 by 15in.

Provenance

Henricus Petrus Bremmer, The Hague (until 1956)
F. Bremmer, The Hague (by descent from the above)
Sale: Christie's, London, 30th June 1987, lot 317 
Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1988

Exhibited

The Hague, Gemeente Museum, Collection Bremmer, 1950
Leiden, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, 1951, no. 26
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel E.J. van Wissellingh, Vincent van Gogh, Aquarelles et dessins de l'epoque 1881-1885 provenant de Collections particulières Néerlandaises, 1961
Munich, Städtische Galerie, Vincent van Gogh, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, 1961

Literature

Jacob-Baart de la Faille, L'Œuvre de Vincent van Gogh. Catalogue raisonné, Paris and Brussels, 1928, no. 1235
Walther Vanbeselaere, De Hollandse Period (1880-1885) in het werk van Vincent van Gogh, Antwerp, 1937, pp. 262 and 412
Jacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam and London, 1970, no. F1235, illustrated p. 337
Jacob-Baart de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh. The Complete Works on Paper. Catalogue raisonné, San Francisco, 1992, vol. I, no. 1235, catalogued p. 315; vol. II, no. 1235, illustrated pl. CIV

Catalogue Note

In summer 1881, van Gogh returned to his parents' parsonage in Etten. For the remainder of the year he worked hard at his draughtsmanship, seeking out landscapes, objects and characters to study.

The present work depicts a farm on the road to Roozendaal. 'Every day that it does not rain', he wrote to his brother Theo, 'I go out in the fields, generally to the heath. I make my studies on a rather large scale, like the few you saw at the time of your visit; so I have done, among other things, a cottage on the heath, and also the barn with a thatched roof on the road to Roozendaal, which locally they call the Protestant barn...' ( letter 145).