Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006054Avenue of Pollard Birches and Poplars
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "Vincent / Van Gogh"
Provenance
A.G.A. van Rappard, Utrecht; Mrs. Spanjaard-Keller, the Hague; W.B. Tholen, the Hague; D'Audretsch Art Gallery, the Hague, 1940. F.C. d'Audretsch, Wassenaar/New York. Mrs. M. Frank, New York, acquired 1970; by descent; sold, Christie's, New York, Nov. 15, 1989, lot 8; private collection, France; sold, Christie's, New York, Nov. 18, 1998, lot 2, to Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 20, 2011, cat. 70 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Feb. 19–June 6, 2021 and Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.
Publications
Jacob-Baart de la Faille, "Loveuvre de Vincent van Gogh: Catalogue raisonné" (G. Van Oest, 1928), vol. 3, p. 93, no. 124 (ill.). Walther Vanbeselaere, "De hollandsche periode (1880-1885) in het werk van Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)" (De Sikkel, 1937), pp. 263, 353, 412. Jacob-Baart de la Faille, "The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings" (Reynal, with Morrow, 1970), p. 442, no. F1241 (ill.). Jan Hulsker, "Van Gogh en zijn weg" (Meulenhoff, 1977), pp. 110-11, 486, no. 470 (ill.). Jacob-Baart de la Faille, "Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Works on Paper; Catalog Raisonné" (Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1992), pp. 93,317, no. 1241, pl. 104. Jan Huskler, "The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches; Rivised and Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Vincent van Gogh" (J.M.Meulenhoff/John Benjamins, 1996), p. 110, fig. 470. Sjraar van Heugten, "Vincent van Gogh Drawings" (Van Gogh Museum, 1997), vol.2, p. 98.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh / Dutch, 1853–1890
- Date
- March 1884
- Medium
- Reed pen and iron-gall ink on tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- 19.2 × 26.5 cm (7 9/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2022.74
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