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    The Poet's Garden
    Vincent van Gogh. The Poet's Garden, 1888. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000656

    The Poet's Garden

    by Vincent van Gogh

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    The artist’s sister-in-law, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (died 1925) [see Nordenfalk 1946 and Supinen 1990]. Galerie d’Art Odenzeel, Rotterdam [La Faille 1928, 131]. Galerie d’Art d’Audretsch, The Hague, Netherlands [according to information on Registrar archival card, copy in curatorial object file]. M. Gieseler, The Hague, Netherlands, by 1925; Sale, A. Mak, Amsterdam, Oct. 1925, lot 33. Howard Young Galleries, New York [stock no. 2486, according to Registrar archival card]. Mrs. Lewis Larned (Annie Swan) Coburn (died 1932), Chicago, by at least 1928 [see Registrar receipt dated May 28, 1928, copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

    Exhibition history

    Copenhagen, Den Frie Udstilling, 1893, cat. 183. Christiania (Oslo), exhibition of modern French art organized by Julien Leclercq, Jan. 1898; Stockholm, Feb. 1898, Gothenburg, Helsinki, and Berlin, 1898, no cat. [Shown in Stockholm and Gothenburg, possibly in Helsinki and Berlin, see Carl Nordenfalk 1946 and Supinen 1990]. Possibly Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune Galerie, Exposition d'Œuvres de Vincent van Gogh, Mar. 15 - 31, 1901, cat. 60. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Summer Exhibition: Retrospective, June-Sep. 1930, cat. 105. Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Paintings and Water Colors, Apr. 6-Oct. 9, 1932, cat. 13. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1-Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 315. Springfield, MA, Cézanne to the Present, Dec. 1935-Jan. 1936, cat. 52. Art Institute of Chicago, Vincent Van Gogh, 1936, not included in cat. Cleveland Museum of Art, Work by Vincent van Gogh, 1948, cat. 12 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at the Landscape, June 22-Aug. 25, 1974, no cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–Sep. 16, 1984, cat. 89; Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984-Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition du Grand Palais, Feb. 8-Apr. 22, 1985 (Los Angeles only). New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Gogh in Arles, Oct. 18, 1984-Dec. 30, 1984, cat. 104. Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300–1900, Oct. 17, 1985-Apr. 22, 1986, not included in cat. Art Institute, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South, Sep. 22, 2001-Jan. 13, 2002, cat. 63; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Feb. 9-June 2, 2002. Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, Feb. 14 - May 10, 2016, no cat no., plate 15.

    Publications

    Vincent van Gogh, Brieven Aan Zijn Broeder, ed. Jo van Gogh-Bonger (Amsterdam: Maatschappij voor goede & goedkoope lectuur, 1924), 174. J[acob]-B[aart] de la Faille, L’Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh, Catalogue Raisonné vol. 1 (Paris and Brussels: G. van Oest, 1928), 131 no. 468, pl. 131. Vincent van Gogh, Further Letters to His Brother, 1886–1889 vol. 3 (London: Constable, 1929), no. 537. “Masterpieces of the French Impressionists,” The Fine Arts 19, no. 1 (June 1932): 22 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 27 (December 1933), 116 (ill.). Carl Nordenfalk, “Van Gogh and Sweden,” Kunshistorisk Tidskrift 15 (December 1946): 92–93. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 182. Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (September 1966): 203. J[acob]-B[aart] de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings (New York: Reynal & Company, 1970), 212 (ill.), 213 no.F 470. Paolo Lecaldano, L’opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh e i suoi nessi grafici: Da Arles a Auvers vol. 2 (Milan: Rizzoli, 1977), 212-13 no. 571 (ill.). Jan Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980), 358 no. 1578, 361 (ill.). A. M. and Renilde Hammacher, Van Gogh: A Documentary Biography (London: Thames and Hudson, 1982), 166, 179 (ill.), 237, no. 143. Richard Brettell, Post-Impressionists (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), np. ill. Roland Dorn, “Vincent van Gogh;s Concept of ‘Décoration’,” in Vincent van Gogh: International Symposium (Tokyo, 1988), 378-79, fig. 3a. Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muiei︡a Metropoliten v Ni︡u-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great French Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century from Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago], exh. cat. (Leningrad: Izdat ë Ivstvo Avrora, 1988), no. 42 (ill.). Monique Nonne, Le jardin de Van Gogh (Paris: Flammarion, 1989), 76 (ill.). Ingo F. Walther and Reiner Metzger, Vincent van Gogh: Sämtliche Gemälde: Arles, Februar 1888–Auvers-sur-Oise, Juli 1890 vol. 2 (Cologne: Benedikt Taschen, 1989), 416 (ill.). Maria Supinen, “Julien Leclercq: A Champion of the Unknown Vincent van Gogh,” Jong Holland, no. 6 (1990): 7-8. Jan Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, revised and enlarged ed. (Amsterdam: J.M. Muelenhoff; Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1996), 361-62 no. 1578. Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard, exh. cat. (St. Louis: Saint Louis Art Musuem in association with Rizzoli,, 2001), 175 (ill.). Agnieszka Juszczak, "The Iconography of the Valpini Suite," in Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889, exh. cat (Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010), 161. Louis van Tilborough, Trio Meedendorp and Oda van Maanen, “‘Sunset at Montmajor’: A Newly Discovered Painting by Vincent van Gogh,” Burlington Magazine 155 (October 2013), 699 fig. 61, 700. Gloria Groom, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Press, 2016), 37-38, 41-45, 47, 48n14, 60, pl. 15.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
    Date
    1888
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    73 × 92.1 cm (28 3/4 × 36 1/4 in.); Framed: 96.6 × 116.9 cm (38 × 46 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    Post-Impressionism
    Place
    Netherlands
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1933.433

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