The Valley of Kerzellec, Le Pouldu
Currently on view
Meijer de Haan (1852 - 1895), Le Pouldu, 1890
oil on canvas, 58.5 cm x 71.7 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij)
- Object number
- s0557S2025
- Dimensions
- 58.5 cm x 71.7 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist with Marie-Jeanne Henry, Le Pouldu, October 1890; probably after her death in 1944 bequeathed to one of her daughters: Léa Lollichon, or Marie Ida Cochennec; consigned by Léa Lollichon, or Marie Ida Cochennec to auction Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Tableaux Modernes Gouaches, Aquarelles, Dessins), lot 162 (Paysage du Pouldu, au verger), purchased by Arthur Goodhart Altschul and Stephanie Rosemary Altschul-Wagner, New York for FRF 760.000, 24 June 1959; sold by Galerie Hopkins-Thomas-Custot, Paris and New York to Roger Seller Meier and Laura Meier, Portland, United States, for USD 750.000, April 2001; their heirs; consigned by these heirs to auction New York, Sotheby’s (Modern Day Auction), lot 107, purchased by Perspective Fine Art for USD 203.200, 16 May 2024; sold by them to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 29 December 2025.
- artist
- Meijer de Haan
- Credits
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij)
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Hiroshima, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Gauguin et ses amis peintres: la collection Marie Henry 'Buvette de la place' le Pouldu, en Bretagne, 6 June-5 July 1992
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