Basket of Pansies
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, May 1887
oil on canvas, 46 cm x 55 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
In 1886, when Van Gogh lived in Paris, he made a large number of flower still lifes. Basket of Pansies is one of them. He hoped that paintings of this kind would attract buyers, but he had little luck selling them.
The basket is on a stool shaped like a tambourine. Such stools could be found in the Café du Tambourin on Boulevard de Clichy in Paris. Van Gogh was a regular there. For a couple of months, he even had a relationship with the Italian owner, Agostina Segatori. The same stools are also visible in the portrait he painted of her.
- F-number
- F0244
- JH-number
- JH1093
- Object number
- s0180V1962
- Dimensions
- 46 cm x 55 cm, 65.5 cm x 74.5 cm, 9 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, at the beginning of May 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 Mesdag Museum, The Hague, 1926; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, from 1927 to 1930; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 22 October 1931; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh 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; 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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