La Crau Seen from Montmajour
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, July 1888
pencil, pen and reed pen and ink, on paper, 49 cm x 61 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh was very fond of the view from Montmajour, a hill near Arles (FR). He called the large drawings he made there 'the best I've done with my pen'.
Japanese art was a major source of inspiration for Van Gogh. For this view of La Crau, for instance, he drew on the hatched prints and drawings of the Japanese. He used a wide variety of strokes, dots and crosses to emphasize the flatness of the landscape. He wrote to his friend, the artist Émile Bernard, 'It does NOT look Japanese, and it's actually the most Japanese thing that I've done.'
- F-number
- F1420
- JH-number
- JH1501
- Object number
- d0349V1962
- Dimensions
- 49 cm x 61 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Arles to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, 13 July 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; 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; 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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