Autumn Day
Currently on view
Leo Gestel (1881 - 1941), Hatert, 1909
oil on canvas, 50 cm x 65 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (State of the Netherlands)
The sky in this painting seems slightly luminous. That was exactly what Gestel wanted. In the autumn of 1909 he began work on a series of paintings intended to convey the sensation of the light on a misty autumn day. Look at the brightly coloured dots and dashes of paint that he used to create this effect. This is one the ‘Luminist’ works he painted at this time. (‘Lumen’ is Latin for light.)
We know that he painted this landscape on a ‘freezing but sunny’ autumn day somewhere near Nijmegen. It was cold: he wore gloves to paint it.
- Object number
- s0528N2012
- Dimensions
- 50 cm x 65 cm, 64.7 cm x 79.6 cm, 4.5 cm
- Provenance
- Probably sold to Johannes F.S. Esser for NLG 200 during the exhibition in Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum (Vereeniging Sint Lucas. Een en twintigste jaarlijksche tentoonstelling van kunstwerken door leden der vereeniging), cat. 182 (Herfstdag), 11 June 1911; probably exchanged by Johannes F.S. Esser, Berlin with Piet Boendermaker, 1920 or 1924; donated by Piet Boendermaker, Bergen (NH) to the State of the Netherlands to be placed in the ambassador's building of the Dutch ambassy in Caracas, 1924; on loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, 17 July 1991 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994; on permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum, since 2 July 2012.
- artist
- Leo Gestel
- Credits
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (State of the Netherlands)
Laren, Singer Museum, Leo Gestel, 22 January-7 June 2015, no. zonder nr.
Laren, Singer Museum, Mondriaan, Breitner, Sluijters e.a. : de onstuitbare verzamelaar J.F.S. Esser, 13 December 2005-28 April 2006
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Le Fauvisme ou <l'épreuve du feu> : éruption de la modernité en Europe, 29 October 1999-27 February 2000, no. 179
Laren, Singer Museum, Leo Gestel : schilder en tekenaar, 28 November 1993-30 January 1994, no. 33
The Hague, Kunsthandel Ivo Bouwman, Leo Gestel 1881-1941, 3 October-2 November 1981, no. 43
Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Impressionists and post-impressionists from the Netherlands, 19 April-21 May 1980, no. 19
The Hague, Kunstzaal J.C. Schüller en Eisenloeffel, Tentoonstelling van schilderijen en teekeningen van Leo Gestel (werk van 1906 tot 1913), March-April 1913, no. 33
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Vereeniging Sint Lucas. Een en twintigste tentoonstelling van kunstwerken door leden der vereeniging, 30 April-11 June 1911
Bouwman, I., Wingen, E., Leo Gestel 1881-1941, 1981, no. 43