Sale of Building Scrap
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Nuenen, May 1885
chalk or charcoal, watercolour, on paper, 38.0 cm x 55.4 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
'The old tower in the fields is being demolished. There was a sale of woodwork and slates and old iron, including the cross. I’ve finished a watercolour of it,' Vincent wrote to Theo from Nuenen, in the Dutch province of North Brabant.
A public sale was held of the scrap materials from the demolition of the local church tower. The iron cross from the church spire – originally purchased by the mayor himself – lies on the ground to the right. The mayor himself, Jan van Hombergh, is also in the picture. He stands beside the doorway in his top hat. The man in uniform is Constable Johannes Biemans.
- F-number
- F1230
- JH-number
- JH0770
- Object number
- d0361V1962
- Dimensions
- 38.0 cm x 55.4 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Nuenen to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, at the beginning of June 1885; 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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