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    Grapes, Lemons, Pears, and Apples
    Vincent van Gogh. Grapes, Lemons, Pears, and Apples, 1887. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001156

    Grapes, Lemons, Pears, and Apples

    by Vincent van Gogh

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    The artist’s brother, Theo van Gogh (died 1891), Paris; either by descent to his brother-in-law, Andres Bonger, or to Julien Tanquy [this and the following according to Stolwijk and Veenenbos, 2002, 25]. Émile Bernard, Paris, around March 1894; sold to Ambroise Vollard, Paris, Aug. 14, 1894 [Fonds Archives, MS 421 (4,3) fol. 4, August 14, 1894, Musée d’Orsay, Paris; New York 2006]; sold to Edgar Degas (died 1917), Paris, possibly Oct. 1895 [Degas inventory no. 173; New York 1997 and New York 2006]; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Mar. 25-26, 1918, lot 29 [sale catalogue in curatorial object file]; sold to Paul Rosenberg, Paris, for 16,500 francs [this and the following according to New York 2006]. Henry-Jean Laroche, Paris, by 1928. Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago, by 1928 [Chicago 1933 and label on the reverse]. Walter S. Brewster (died 1954) and Kate L. Brewster (1947), Chicago, by 1929 [Chicago 1929]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1949.

    Exhibition history

    Munich, Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Nachtragswerk III zur grossen Katalogausgabe (1916), 1918, cat. 115. Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibitions of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, Jan. 4-18, 1929, cat. 18. Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Mar. 6-Apr. 6,1929, cat. 94. New York, Museum of Modern Art, First Loan Exhibition, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, Nov. 7–Dec. 7, 1929, cat. 94. Chicago, Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Special View for the Benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society, Jan. 20-22, 1933, cat. 30. Northampton, MA, Single Picture Exhibition, Summer 1935. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Gogh, Paintings and Drawings, Oct. 21, 1949-Jan. 15, 1950, cat. 55; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1-Apr. 16, 1950. Kansas City, MO, Nelson-Atkins Gallery, Tracing the History of Modern Painting, Jan. 19, 1961–Feb. 28, 1961. Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27-Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 44. Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 18-Dec. 17, 1986, cat. 41; Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5-Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4-Apr. 13, 1986. Leningrad [now Saint Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago, Mar. 15-May 19, 1988, not included in cat.; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988. [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great 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] Art Institute of Chicago, Tour de France: Paintings, Photographs, Prints, and Drawings from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 9, 1989-Mar. 4, 1990, no cat. London, National Gallery, Degas as a Collector, May 22-Aug. 26, 1996, cat. 25. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, Oct. 1, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998, cat. 595. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cézanne to Picasso Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, Sep. 13, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007, cat. 114; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 17-May 13, 2007; Paris, Musée d’Orsay, June 18-Sep. 16, 2007. Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 56. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Van Gogh: Up Close, Jan. 1-May 6, 2012, cat. 143; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, May 25-Sep. 2, 2012. Denver Art Museum, Van Gogh's Awakening: Antwerp, Paris, Arles, Oct. 20, 2012-Jan. 20, 2013. Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, Feb. 14 - May 10, 2016, no cat. no., plate 10. Potsdam, Germany, Museum Barberini, Van Gogh: Still Lifes, Oct. 26, 2019 - Feb. 2, 2020. Detroit Institute of Art, Van Gogh and America, Oct. 2, 2022 - Jan. 22, 2023, cat. 26.

    Publications

    Henri Hertz, “La crise présente des arts plastiques: Témoignage et Argument de Van Gogh,” L’Amour de l’art 3, no. 7 (July 1922): 207 (ill.). Albert Franz Cochrane, “Fogg Museum Stages Magnificent Exhibition of French Art,” Boston Evening Transcript, March 9, 1929. J[acob]-B[aart] de la Faille, L’Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2 (Paris and Brussels: G. van Oest, 1928), 107 no. 382, pl. 104. Clarence J. Bulliet, “Fogg Museum Joins in Fight on Fog [Pardon!],” Chicago Evening Post, April 16, 1929. Smith College Museum of Art Bulletin (1935): 18 no. 16. Lamberto Vitali, Vincent van Gogh (Milan: U. Hoepli, 1936), pl. 5. Jacob-Baart de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh (New York: French and European Publications; Paris: Hyperion Press, 1939), 241 (ill.). Daniel Catton Rich, “The Kate L. Brewster Bequest,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 44 (1955): 51, 55 (ill.). Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 182. Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo (September 1966): 203. Jacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings (New York: Reynal, 1970), 176-77 no. F382, 626. Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, Vincent Van Gogh: His Paris Period 1886-1888 (Utrecht: Editions Victorine, 1976), 110, 231. Paolo Lecaldano, L'opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh e i suoi nessi grafici vol. 1: Da Etten a Parigi (Milan: Rizzoli, 1977), 118-19 no. 451. Jan Hulsker, The complete Van Gogh: Paintings, drawings, sketches (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1980), 296, 300, no. 1337 (ill.). [rev. ed. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: J.M. Meulenhoff; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1996] Belinda Thomson, Van Gogh (hicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New York: distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 2001), 28, 47, 84-85 fig. 8. Chris Stolwijk and Han Veenenbos, The Account Book of Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger (Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum; Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2002), 25 n33. Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, eds, The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 121 cat. 56. Cornelia Homburg, ed., Van Gogh: Up Close, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), 6, 18, 191 fig. 143, 253. Gloria Groom, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Press, 2016), plate 10. Van Gogh Still Lifes, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel, 2019), 140, 172-73, 238-39, 252, 262. Jill Shaw, ed., Van Gogh in America, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022), 152 pl. 55, 153, 214, 218, 254 cat. 26. Gloria Groom, "A Stack for Every Season" in Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago, James Rondeau, ed. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2026), 124, fig. 3.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
    Date
    1887
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    46.5 × 55.2 cm (18 1/4 × 21 3/4 in.); Framed: 57.8 × 66.7 × 5.1 cm (22 3/4 × 26 1/4 × 2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    Post-Impressionism
    Place
    Paris
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Gift of Kate L. Brewster
    Accession no.
    1949.215

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