Undergrowth
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, July 1887
oil on canvas, 46 cm x 38 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Even in Paris, Van Gogh was always in search of nature, if only in the form of an urban park. Are those brambles in the foreground? With streaks of purplish blue for the ripe blackberries and dark red for the unripe fruit?
But perhaps it’s worth thinking less about what Van Gogh was painting here than about how he painted it – using little dots and dashes to depict light and shade. He picked up this way of painting from the Neo-Impressionists. Their style is sometimes called Pointillism (or ‘dotted art’) and it was the very latest thing in Paris at that time. Paul Signac was one of their leading lights. Van Gogh got to know him after he moved to the French capital.
- F-number
- F0308
- JH-number
- JH1313
- Object number
- s0079V1962
- Dimensions
- 46 cm x 38 cm, 62.8 cm x 55.4 cm, 7.6 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, second half of July 1887; 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 (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; 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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