Shed with Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, August-September 1887
pencil, pen and ink, watercolour, on paper, 31.6 cm x 24.1 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh decided to make this drawing in a spot among the allotment gardens on the northwestern slope of Montmartre. The high barn and the lower building were at the edge of this area. Beyond them lay the factories on the outskirts of Paris. There are small holes in the corners of the paper. Van Gogh probably made them when he pinned up the sheet.
In the late summer of 1887, Van Gogh painted sunflowers for the first time. In Arles (FR) he painted large bouquets of sunflowers in a vase; these paintings later made him world-famous.
- F-number
- F1411
- JH-number
- JH1305
- Object number
- d0352V1962
- Dimensions
- 31.6 cm x 24.1 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, August-September 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; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren, to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 10 July 1962; 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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