Avenue in Brittany with Figures
Currently on view
Emile Bernard (1868 - 1941), 1888
pencil, reed pen and ink and watercolour on paper, 30.8 cm x 20.2 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
- Object number
- d0646V1962
- Dimensions
- 30.8 cm x 20.2 cm, 49 cm x 37 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Saint-Briac to Vincent van Gogh, Arles; received by him on 29 July 1888; sent by Vincent van Gogh to his brother, Theo van Gogh, Paris, the same day; 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 (ratified 28 December 1970); 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)
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889, 4 October 2009-18 January 2010
New York, The Morgan Library & Museum, Painted with Words. Vincent van Gogh's letters to Emile Bernard, 28 September 2007-6 January 2008
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Gauguin's Vision, 6 July-2 October 2005
Tokyo, Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh drawing exhibition. Van Gogh and his time from the Van Gogh Museum and the H.W. Mesdag Museum, 14 September-13 November 2000
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism, 24 January-22 March 1981
Uitert, Evert van, Hoyle, Michael, Crimpen, Han van, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, 1987, p. 372
