Vincent van Gogh: Landscape with Dunes
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| Artist |
Vincent van Gogh
(1853–1890)    |
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| 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 |
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artist QS:P170,Q5582 |
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| Title |
label QS:Len,"In the Dunes"
label QS:Lnl,"In de duinen" |
| Object type |
painting |
| Genre |
landscape art |
| Date |
1883 date QS:P571,+1883-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
| Medium |
oil on paper mounted on panel |
| Dimensions |
height: 33.5 cm (13.1 in); width: 48.5 cm (19 in) dimensions QS:P2048,33.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,48.5U174728 |
| Collection |
Private collection institution QS:P195,Q768717 |
| Place of creation |
The Hague |
| Object history |
- Oldenzeel Art Gallery, Rotterdam (1904). [per Christie's lot notes and following]
- H. Sythoff, Wassenaar, Netherlands (by 1937).
- Mrs. A.M. Sythoff-Burgerhour, Wassenaar, Netherlands (by descent from the above, 1960).
- Anon. sale, Van Marle en Bingell, The Hague, 21 May 1963, lot 32.
- Private collection, Netherlands.
- The Weldon Collection, London.
- Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1968, lot 18.
- Mrs. Philip D. Armour, Palm Beach and Lake Forest.
- Brook Street Galleries, London.
- Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 1969).
- Trosby Gallery, Inc., Palm Beach (acquired from the above, 1969).
- Private collection, Denver.
- Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 1975).
- Trosby Galleries, West Palm Beach (acquired from the above, 1977).
- Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Vanden Brul, Rochester.
- Acquired from the above, December 1989.
- Sale Christie's, New York, 5 November 2014: Price realized $1,805,000 includes Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium
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| Exhibition history |
- Rotterdam, Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Vincent van Gogh, November-December 1904, no. 5. [per Christie's lot notes and following]
- Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Vincent van Gogh, February-May 1960, p. 29, no. 4 (illustrated in color, p. 58).
- Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (on extended loan).
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| Notes |
- Catalogues raisonnés:
- F15a: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 15a .
- JH393 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no. 393.
- Loosduinen, now a suburb of The Hague, was then a village about 4 miles south. It was a lonely windswept spot, popular with the Hague School artists. Anton Mauve, Vincent's mentor and cousin-in-law, set up a studio there at a farmhouse for several months in 1877. By June 1882 it was reachable by tram from The Hague, and Vincent, who had set up his first studio in The Hague at the beginning of the year, took to sketching and painting there. There is no evidence for the date, but a letter of 5 September 1883 to his brother Theo talks of a painting trip there, possibly referencing Farm in Loosduinen near The Hague, and both Hulsker and de la Faille date the present painting to the previous month when colours would not have been autumnal.
- Vincent had taken to painting in oils the year previous. At this time he did not paint on canvas, but on paper mounted on a panel of wood. He is thought to have produced some seventy such oil paintings over the year, but only twenty-five of these are known, the rest lost. Of the twenty-five known studies, Hulsker dates fourteen to August 1882 and the rest (including this one) to August/September 1883 (Hulsker p. 54). By September 1883 his relationship with his partner Sien Hoornink had become intractable and at his brother's urging Vincent left for Drenthe on 11 September 1883 (Hulsker p.91).
- Letters
- Letter 381: to Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 5 September 1883. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "I received your letter just now when I came home from the dunes behind Loosduinen, soaking wet because I had spent 3 hours in the rain at a spot where everything was Ruisdael, Daubigny or Jules Dupré. I came back with a study of crooked, windswept trees, and a second of a farm after the rain. Everything is already bronze, everything is what one can see in nature only at this time of year, or if one stands before one of those paintings like a Dupré, for instance, and so beautiful that one’s imagination always falls short of it."
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| References |
- ; Naifeh, Steven; Smith, Gregory White (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. 112, 238 and 413, no. 15bis (titled Heide). [per Christie's lot notes and following]
- J.-B. de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam, 1970, p. 185, no. F 15a (illustrated, p. 186).
- J. Hulsker, The Complete van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, New York, 1980, p. 92, no. 393 (illustrated, p. 93; titled Landscape with Dunes).
- M. Arnold, Vincent van Gogh: Werk und Wirkung, Munich, 1995, p. 836, no. 424.
- 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. 92, no. 393 (illustrated, p. 93; titled Landscape with Dunes).
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| Source/Photographer |
Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5840853 (sale 2888, lot 10, New York, 5 November 2014) |
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