Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Currently on view
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, June 1888
oil on canvas, 50.5 cm x 64.3 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
We can tell that Van Gogh painted this view of the sea from the beach, as grains of sand have been found in the paint layers. It was done at the fishing village of Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, during a trip he took from Arles in the south of France.
In addition to the blue and white that he brushed onto the canvas with bold strokes, he used green and yellow for the waves.
He applied these colours with a palette knife, neatly capturing the effect of the light through the waves. Van Gogh was enthusiastic about the colours of the Mediterranean Sea. He wrote that it ‘has a colour like mackerel, in other words, changing – you don’t always know if it’s green or purple – you don’t always know if it’s blue – because a second later, its changing reflection has taken on a pink or grey hue’. The bright red signature has been placed prominently in the foreground: it was intended as a ‘red note in the green’.
- F-number
- F0415
- JH-number
- JH1452
- Object number
- s0117V1962
- Dimensions
- 50.5 cm x 64.3 cm, 70.7 cm x 84.5 cm, 9.5 cm x 10.2
- Provenance
- Given by the artist to Paul Eugène Milliet to take to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, mid-August 1888; after Theo’s death on 25 January 1891, possibly inherited by his mother Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, Breda/Leiden; after her death on 29 april 1907 bought by her daughter-in-law Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Laren for NLG 500; after her death on 2 september 1925 inherited by her son Vincent Willem van Gogh, 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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