
Property of an Eminent Private Collector
Jardin public à Arles
Auction Closed
March 4, 08:29 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Vincent van Gogh
1853 - 1890
Jardin public à Arles
pen and ink on paper
13.3 by 17.2 cm. 5¼ by 6¾ in.
Executed in September 1888.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
This work has been requested for the exhibition Jewish Collections in Germany from 1890 to 1933 to be held at Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg from 11 September 2026 – 28 March 2027.
Theo van Gogh, Paris (the artist's brother)
Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Paris (acquired by descent from the above in 1891)
Lutz Art Gallery, Berlin
Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Barmen (acquired from the above in the 1920s)
Max Silberberg (1878 - circa 1942), Wroclaw
His forced sale: Paul Graupe & Cie, Berlin, Gemälde und Zeichnungen des 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer bekannten schlesischen Privatsammlung und aus verschiedenem Privatbesitz, 23 March 1935, lot 38 (titled Parkskizze)
Galerie Thannhauser, Berlin and Lucerne (possibly acquired from the above sale)
Agnes E. Fairbairn, Geelong (acquired from the above on 4 July 1936)
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York (on consignment from the above by 1941)
William A. Coolidge, London and Boston
Edward and Thalia Gage, London
Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1958, lot 47 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired at the above sale)
European Foundation (acquired as a bequest from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 13 November 1997, lot 105 (consigned by the above)
A. Alfred Taubman (acquired from the above sale)
Sotheby’s, New York, 4 November 2015, lot 2 (consigned by the above; sold with the benefit of a settlement agreement with the heir of Max Silberberg)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Ambroise Vollard, Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh, 1896-97
London, The Leicester Galleries, Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Prints by Modern Artists, 1936, no. 165
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Gogh in Arles, 1984, no. 107, p. 181, illustrated in colour (titled Public Garden with Round Bush: Poet's Garden II)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Gogh's Cypresses, 2023
Alfred Vallette, Mercure de France, 1894, no. 57, p. 21, illustrated
Ambroise Vollard, ed., Lettres de Vincent van Gogh à Émile Bernard, Paris, 1911, pl. LIII, illustrated (titled Jardin public de Provence)
Jacob Baart de la Faille, L'Œuvre de Vincent van Gogh: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 3, Paris and Brussels, 1928, no. 1465, pp. 141-42; vol. 4, no. 1465, pl. CLX, illustrated
Jacob Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings, New York, 1970, no. F1465, p. 511, illustrated (titled A Park in Arles)
Charles W. Millard, "A Chronology for Van Gogh's Drawings of 1888," Master Drawings, vol. XII, no. 2, 1974, p. 161 (titled A Park in Arles)
Jan Hulsker, The Complete van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, New York, 1980, no. 1583, p. 363, illustrated (titled Round Clipped Shrub in the Public Garden)
Exh. Cat., Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, Vincent van Gogh: Drawings, 1990, p. 238
Jacob Baart de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh, the Complete Works on Paper, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, San Francisco, 1992, no. 1465, pp. 141-42 and p. 381; vol. II, pl. CLX, illustrated
Jan Hulsker, The New Complete van Gogh Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, Philadelphia, 1996, no. 1583, p. 363, illustrated (titled Round Clipped Shrub in the Public Garden)
Exh. Cat., Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Van Gogh, 2000, p. 80
Exh. Cat., Warwickshire, Compton Verney and Edinburgh, Dean Gallery, Van Gogh and Britain: Pioneer Collectors, 2006, p. 122, listed (titled Shrub in the Public Garden)
Stefan Koldehoff, “Van Gogh in Germany until 1918. Catalogue of Collections and Exhibitions,” in Exh. Cat., New York, Neue Galerie, Van Gogh and Expressionism, 2007, p. 171
Exh. Cat., Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, Der Expressionistische Impuls: Meisterwerke aus Wuppertals grossen Privatsammlungen, 2008, pp. 109-10
Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, eds., Vincent van Gogh, The Letters, The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition, Volume 4: Arles, 1888-1889, London, 2009, p. 289, illustrated in colour (illustration is reversed; titled The public garden ('The poet's garden'))
Stefan Koldehoff and Chris Stolwijk, eds. The Thannhauser Gallery: Marketing Van Gogh, Amsterdam, 2017, no. 76, p. 248, catalogued; p. 249, illustrated in colour (titled Bush in the Park at Arles (‘The Poet Garden II’))
Exh. Cat., London, The National Gallery, Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, 2024, no. 60, p. 88, illustrated in colour (titled The Poet's Garden (Public Garden at Arles))
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