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Property from an Important Private Collection

Vincent Van Gogh

La Moisson en Provence

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25,000,000 - 35,000,000 USD

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Property from an Important Private Collection

Vincent van Gogh

(1853 - 1890)


La Moisson en Provence

signed Vincent (lower right); titled (lower left)

watercolor, gouache, charcoal, reed and quill pens and ink on paper laid down on board

19 ⅛ by 24 ⅛ in. 

48.7 by 61.2 cm.

Executed in June 1888. 


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

Please note the present work has been requested for the forthcoming exhibition "Van Gogh and the Colours of the South—Arles, May-November 1888," scheduled to take place from 17 March - 20 June 2027 at the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation in Athens.

Theo van Gogh, Paris (sent to him by the artist circa 15 June 1888)

Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam and Vincent Willem van Gogh (acquired by descent from the above and until 1897)

(probably) Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the above)

Julius Meier-Graefe, Berlin (acquired by 1899)

Jos. Hessel, Paris (acquired by 1901 and until at least 1914)

Paul Cassirer, Berlin (on consignment to Galerie Georges Bernheim, Paris 1914-18)

Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf

F. Haniel, Wistinghausen

Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris

The Lefevre Gallery (Alex, Reid and Lefevre Ltd.), London

Mrs. J.B.A. (Anne) Kessler, London (acquired by 1930)

Sotheby's, London, 24 June 1997, lot 7 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby’s, New York, 5 November 2003, lot 6 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Vollard, Vincent van Gogh, 1896-87, no. 49

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Vincent van Gogh, 1901, no. 66

Paris, Galerie E. Druet, Cinquante Tableaux de Vincent van Gogh, 1909, no. 23 (titled La Récolte en Provence)

Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Vincent van Gogh, 1914, no. 76a (Landschaft bei Arles)

Dusseldorf, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Lebende Ausländische Kunst aus rheinischem Privatbesitz, 1928, no. 6 (titled Der Blauen Karren)

London, Alex. Reid and Lefevre Ltd., Renoir and the Post-lmpressionists, 1930, no. 15, n.p.

London, National Gallery, Nineteenth Century French Paintings, 1943, no. 76

London, Wildenstein & Co., Ltd. and York City Art Gallery, The Kessler Collection, 19th & 20th Century French Masters, 1948, no. 30, p. 12, illustrated (Study for the Harvest in the Crau near Arles)

The Leicestershire Museums and Art Gallery, The Kessler Collection: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Modern Masters, Collected by the Late Mrs. Anne Kessler, 1986-87, no. 11, p. 8, illustrated

Palm Springs Desert Museum, European Master Painters, 2004, n.n.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Vincent van Gogh, The Drawings, 2005, no. 62, p. 31, illustration of the lithograph version; pp. 195, 223, 350 and 352-53; p. 193, illustrated in color

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Van Gogh Draughtsman, The Masterpieces, 2005, no. 94, n.p., illustrated in color (titled The Harvest)

Palm Springs Art Museum, Return of the Masters, 2006, n.n.

Palm Springs Art Museum, Seductions: Impressionist and 20th Century Painting, 2008, n.n.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters, 2010, no. 92, pp. 168-98, illustrated in color

Denver Art Museum, Becoming van Gogh, 2012-13, no. 83, pp. 108, 114-15, 222, illustrated in color (titled Harvest Landscape)

Palm Springs Art Museum, Shaping Vision: Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism, 2019, no. 54

Detroit Institute of Arts, Van Gogh in America, 2022-23, no. 32, pp. 206 and 235, illustrated in color

Julius Meier-Graefe, Germinal, Berlin, 1899, illustration of the color lithograph

Julius Meier-Graefe, Vincent van Gogh, vol. I, Munich, 1922, pl. xliii, illustrated (titled The Blue Cart)

Kurt Pfister, Van Gogh, Potsdam, 1922, pl. 19, illustrated (titled Landschaft

Louis Pierard, The Tragic Life of Vincent Van Gogh, London, 1925, p. 95, illustrated (titled The Blue Cart)

Florent Fels, Vincent van Gogh, Paris, 1928, p. 148 (titled La Plaine en Provence)

Hans Tietze, Vincent van Gogh, Vienna, 1928, pl. 4, illustrated 

Jacob-Baart de la Faille, L'Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh, Catalogue raisonne, Paris, 1928, no. 1483, vol. III, p. 146; vol. IV, part II, no. 1483, pl. CLXVI, illustrated 

Vincent van Gogh, Briefe an Emile Bernard, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac und andere, Basel, 1929, pl. 104, illustrated 

Walter Pach, Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890, New York, 1936, pl. 22, illustrated in color (titled Vegetable Garden)

Anthony Bertram, The World's Masters, Vincent van Gogh, London, 1945, pl. XVII, illustrated

Mark Roskill, “Vincent van Gogh's ‘Blue Cart' and His Creative Process," Oud Holland, vol. 81, no. 1, 1966, pp. 3 and 5; p. 10, illustrated (titled Harvest in Provence)

Jacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam, 1970, no. F1483, p. 516, illustrated (titled Harvest in the Provence, At The Left Montmajour)

Paolo Lecaldano, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Van Gogh, 1888-1890, vol. II, Milan, 1971, no. 523a, p. 209, illustrated

Jacques Lassaigne, Vincent van Gogh, New York, 1973, fig. 3, p. 43, illustrated 

Charles W. Millard, “A Chronology for Van Gogh's Drawings of 1888,” Master drawings, vol. 12, no. 2, Summer 1974, p. 159

Jan Hulsker, The Complete Van Gogh, Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, New York, 1977, no. 1439, pp. 322-24; p. 326, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Gogh in Arles, 1984, p. 93

Walter Feilchenfeldt, Vincent van Gogh & Paul Cossirer, The Reception of Van Gogh in Germany from 1901 to 1914, Zwolle, 1988, no. F 1483, p. 135, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Vincent van Gogh, Drawings, 1990, pp. 225-27, discussed 

Jacob-Baart de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh, The Complete Works on Paper Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1992, no. 1483, vol. I, p. 146; vol. II, pl. CL.XVI, illustrated

Liesbeth Heenk, Vincent van Gogh's drawings. An analysis of their production and uses, Dissertation, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 1995, pp. 166 and 173-74 

Jan Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh, Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, Amsterdam, 1996, no. 1439, p. 333, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland, Van Gogh and Britain. Pioneer Collectors, 2006, pp. 123-24

Marije Vellekoop and Roelie Zwikker, Vincent van Gogh, Drawings, Volume 4, Arles, Saint-Rémy & Auvers-sur-Oise, Amsterdam, 2007, fig. 7, p. 10, illustrated in color 

Exh. Cat., Vienna, Albertina, Van Gogh, Heartfelt Lines, 2008, p. 300, illustrated in color 

Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, eds., Vincent van Gogh, The Letters, The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition, London, 2009, vol. IV, pp. 122, 126, 159, 164, 172 and 175, illustrated in color 

Exh. Cat., Williamstown, Clark Art Institute, Van Gogh and Nature, 2015, fig. 112, p. 143, illustrated in color