The Poor and Money
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), The Hague, September-October 1882
chalk, watercolour, pen and ink, on paper, 37.9 cm x 56.6 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
'DRAWING FOR NATIONAL LOTTERY TODAY', says the sign on the wall. Many people have showed up for the event. Vincent wrote to his brother Theo that he saw this scene on a rainy day in The Hague.
He was moved by the vain hope of these shabbily dressed 'poor souls'. Would the hard-earned money they spent on lottery tickets gain them anything at all? This thought inspired the title The Poor and Money.
Vincent had commented on portraying groups in an earlier letter: 'how hard it is to get life and movement into it, and to get the figures in place and separate from each other.
- F-number
- F0970
- JH-number
- JH0222
- Object number
- d0376V1962
- Dimensions
- 37.9 cm x 56.6 cm
- Provenance
- With his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, after October 1882; 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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