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    Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre
    Vincent van Gogh. Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre, Early 1887. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000869

    Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre

    by Vincent van Gogh

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    The artist’s sister in law, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (died 1925), Amsterdam [this and the following according to Van Gogh-Bonger’s account book: "101/17 1/1924 'landschapje op Montmartre/lantaarn' 2500 [guilders] reproduced in Stolwijk and Veenenbos 2002, 136, 165]; sold to Mrs. Elizabeth Carstairs (née Stebbins, died 1949), London, Dec. 1923 for 2,500 guilders; sold through Ernest Brown and Philips (Leicester Galleries), London to M. Knoedler Art Gallery, Paris, Jan. 1924 for £300 [this and the following according to Knoedler Stock Book, no. 15822, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]; sold to Frederic Clay Bartlett (died 1953) and Helen Birch Bartlett (died 1925), New York, Aug. 1924, for £400; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.

    Exhibition history

    Possibly Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Tentoonstelling van schilderijen en teekeningen door Vincent van Gogh, July 15 - Sep. 1, 1905, cat. 40. [This entry simply reads “Montmartre” and could possibly be another work.] London, Ernest Brown & Philips, The Leicester Galleries, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Dec. 1923, cat 18. Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1925. Boston Arts Club, 1926. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 380. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934 , cat. 313. New York, Wildenstein Gallery, The Art and Life of Vincent van Gogh: Loan Exhibition in Aid of American and Dutch War Relief, Oct. 6–Nov. 17, 1943. Cleveland Museum of Art, Sep. 1948. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh paintings and drawings. A special loan exhibition, Oct. 15, 1949–Jan. 15, 1950, cat. 46; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1-Apr. 16, 1950. Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Vincent van Gogh, Feb. 4–25, 1951, cat. 3. Andover, MA, Addison Gallery of Art, Variations, Three Centuries of Painting, Jan. 8–Feb. 15, 1954. Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Vincent Van Gogh à Paris, Feb. 2–May 2, 1988, cat. 20. Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South, Sep. 22, 2001-Jan. 13, 2002; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Feb. 9- June 2, 2002. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, Mar. 20 - June 12, 2005; Art Institute of Chicago, July 16-Oct. 10, 2005. Compton Verney, Warwick, England, Van Gogh and Britain: Pioneer Collectors, Mar. 31- June 18, 2006; Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, July 7- Sep. 24, 2006. Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 54 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, Feb.14 - May 10, 2016, no cat. no., plate 4. Detroit Institute of Art, Van Gogh and America, Oct. 2, 2022 - Jan. 22, 2023, cat. 21.

    Publications

    Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1926), 8, pl. 9. Jacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings (New York: Reynal, 1970), 136-37 (ill.), no. F272. Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, et. al., The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 119 (ill.), no. 54. James H. Rubin, “Das Impressionistische Stadtbild als Emblem der Moderne,” in Bilder einer Metropole: Die Impressionisten in Paris, exh. cat. (Essen: Museum Folkwang; Göttingen: Steidl, 2010), 79-80, 81. Gloria Groom, ed., Van Gogh's Bedrooms, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2016), 8, plate 4. Martin Bailey, "Bought for around $1,000, now worth $10m: where was the newly unveiled Van Gogh landscape hidden away?" The Art Newspaper, February 26, 2021. Jill Shaw, ed., Van Gogh in America, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022), 25, 53-54, 82, 148, 227n67, 228n131, 228n141, 233 cat. 21.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
    Date
    Early 1887
    Medium
    Oil on canvas, mounted on pressboard
    Dimensions
    43.6 × 33 cm (17 1/8 × 13 in.); Framed: 61 × 50.8 × 7 cm (24 × 20 × 2 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    Post-Impressionism
    Place
    Paris
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1926.202

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