Mand met aardappels
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Nuenen, September 1885
oil on canvas, 45 cm x 60.5 cm
Credits:
This is one of the still lifes that Van Gogh made in September 1885. He wanted to see what would happen if you used multiple shades of the same colour in a single painting. Here he used the ochre colour terra sienna.
If you zoom in on this painting, you'll see how Van Gogh suggested the wickerwork of the basket. Look, for instance, at the vertical stalks of reed on the left side of the basket, the most brightly lit side. Only small bits of these stalks are visible. Van Gogh rendered these with yellowish-green dots of paint, which he squeezed directly out of the tube onto the canvas.
- F-number
- F0100
- JH-number
- JH0931
- Object number
- s0153V1962
- Dimensions
- 45 cm x 60.5 cm, 62 cm x 77.5 cm, 8.5 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Nuenen to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, c. 13 October 1885; 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 16 December 1930; 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
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