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Vincent van Gogh

Vieux se chauffant

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Vincent van Gogh

1853 - 1890


Vieux se chauffant 

signed Vincent (lower left)

pencil, charcoal and pen and ink on paper 

33.7 by 25 cm. 13¼ by 9⅞ in.

Executed in 1881-82.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

H.P Bremner, The Hague

Julia Elisabeth Crommelin-Tutein Nolthenius, Delft (acquired circa 1910 and until at least 1937)

Hugo Tutein Nolthenius, Amsterdam (acquired by 1941 and until 1944)

Kitty de Kanter-Crommelin, Delft (acquired by descent from the above)

Hendrik de Kanter, California (acquired from the above circa 1970)

Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles

M. Knoedler & Co., New York

Christie’s, London, 3 July 1973, lot 44

Private Collection, USA

Sotheby’s, New York, 12 November 1987, lot 132 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Austria (acquired from the above sale)

Sotheby’s, London, 1 December 1992, lot 6 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Amsterdam, E. J. Van Wisselingh & Co., Vincent van Gogh. Aquarelles & dessins de l’époque 1881-1885 provenant de collections particulières Néerlandaises, 1961, no. 30 (titled Vieil Homme se chauffant and dated 1883)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (on loan from Hendrick de Kanter)

J.-B. de la Faille, L’Œuvre de Vincent van Gogh - Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 4, Paris and Brussels, 1928, no. 1086, Pl. LXIV 

Walter Vanbeselaere, De hollandsche periode (1880-1885) in het werk van Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Antwerp, 1937, no. 1086, pp. 92-93, 173, 185 and 410 (titled Weesmannetje naast de kachel and dated November 1882)

J.-B. de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam, 1970, no. F1086, pp. 334-335, illustrated

Jan Hulsker, The Complete Van Gogh, Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, London, 1980, no. c.b., p. 487

J.-B. de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Works on Paper - Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, San Francisco, 1992, no. 1086, p. 59 and vol. II, no. 1086, Pl. LXIV, p. viii (titled Vieil homme se chauffant)

Liesbeth Heenk, “Van Gogh's drawings. A closer look”, in Apollo, no. 140, issue 393, November 1994, pp. 37-38, fig. 1, illustrated (titled Man near a stove and dated 1883)

Jan Hulsker, The new complete Van Gogh. Paintings, drawings, sketches, Amsterdam & Philadelphia 1996, p. 498