A Comb Has Teeth, but It Doesn’t Eat from the series Au Bordel
Currently on view
Emile Bernard (1868 - 1941), 1888
brush and ink and watercolour on paper, 40.5 cm x 26.4 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
- Object number
- d0631V1962
- Dimensions
- 40.5 cm x 26.4 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Pont-Aven to Vincent van Gogh, Arles; received by him on or shortly before 5 October 1888; sent by Vincent van Gogh to his brother, Theo van Gogh, Paris, on or shortly after 5 October 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; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 10 July 1962; 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; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973, and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
- artist
- Emile Bernard
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Lichte zeden. Prostitutie in de Franse kunst, 1850-1910, 19 February-19 June 2016
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Splendeurs et misères. Images de la prostitution, 1850-1910, 22 September 2015-17 January 2016, no. 82
New Brunswick, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Emile Bernard (1868-1941). The Theme of Bordellos and Prostitutes in Turn-of-the-Century French Art, 3 April-31 May 1988, no. 21
Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, Collectie Theo van Gogh, April-May 1960, no. 12
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Collectie Theo van Gogh, February 1960, no. 12
Leeuw, Ronald de, Van Gogh Museum : schilderijen en pastels, 1993, pp. 116-117
Thomson, Richard, Houbre, Gabrielle, Bakker, Nienke, Splendeurs & misères : images of prostitution in France, 1850-1910, 2015, p. 127-128, 287
