Garden of a Bathhouse
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, August 1888
pencil, reed pen and brush and ink, on paper, 60.7 cm x 49.2 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh came across this abundance of sunflowers in 'the little garden of a bathhouse' in Arles. They are overgrown with flowering creepers. In a letter to his brother Theo, Vincent described the brilliant colours of all those flowers under the blue sky. He placed a very small signature on the bucket in the right foreground.
Vincent warned his brother that he might find the drawing 'too stiff'. He had done that deliberately, so that he could later use the drawing as the basis for a painting. But he never carried out that plan.
- F-number
- F1457
- JH-number
- JH1539
- Object number
- d0175V1962
- Dimensions
- 60.7 cm x 49.2 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Arles to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, 8 August 1888; after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 22 October 1931; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh on 10 July 1962 to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam; agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State, 21 July 1962; given on loan until the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973 to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from 2 June 1973 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
- artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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