LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil, pen and ink heightened with white on paper laid down on thin card

Measurements:

11.42 in. (29.00 cm.) (height) by 17.91 in. (45.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Vincent (lower left)

Exhibited:

Amsterdam, Kunsthandel Huinck en Scherjon, Scilderijen door Vincent van Gogh, J.B. Jongkind, Floris Verster, 1932 The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Verzameling H.P. Bremmer, 1950, no. 41 Montpellier, Musée Fabre, De Jongkind à Van Gogh, 1952, no. 16 Vlaardingen, Holland, Visbank, Van Gogh, 1953, no. 6 Berlin, Bezirksamt Tiergarten, 1953, no. 14 Amsterdam, Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh, Vincent van Gogh, aquarelles et dessins de l'époque 1881-1885 provenant de collections particulières Néerlandaises, 1961, no. 12 Münich, Städtische Galerie, Van Gogh, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, 1961, no. 19 The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Schilders vrondom de Herengracht, 1970 Zeist, Holland, Exspositieruimte het Zeisterslot, 17 Schilders in hun Haagse tijd, no. 63 Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Van Gogh, Van Gogh in zijn Hollandse Jaren, 1980-81, no. 78 The Hague, Haags Historisch Museum, Van Gogh in Den Haag, 1990, no. 56 London, Royal Academy, The Real Van Gogh, The Artist and his Letters, 2010, no. 9, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature:

Beeldende Kunst, 1914, vol. 1,10, no. 80; Jacob-Baart de la Faille, L'Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh, Catalogue raisonné, Dessins, Aquarelles, Lithographies, Paris & Brussels, 1928, no. 941 p. 28 ; Walther Vanbeselaere, De Hollandsche periode (1880-1885) in het werk van Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890), Antwerp & Amsterdam, 1937, pp. 78, 83, 130-1 and 408 (titled Hofje bij Sien's moeder); Jacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings, London, 1970, no. F 941, illustrated p. 351; Jan Hulsker, 'Van Gogh's first and only commission as an artist', Vincent (Rijksmuseum Vincent Gogh bulletin), 1976, vol. IV, no. 4, illustrated pp. 5-19 ; Jan Hulsker, The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, New York, 1977, no. 146, illustrated p. 41; Jan Hulsker, The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, Oxford, 1980, no. 146, illustrated p. 41; Griselda Pollock, Vincent van Gogh and Dutch Art, dissertation, London University, 1980, illustrated p. 95 ; Griselda Pollock, "Stark encounters, modern life and urban work in van Gogh's drawings of The Hague 1881-3, Art History, vol. VI, no. 3, 1983, p. 336 and 343; Han van Crimpen and Monique Berends-Albert, Die brieven van Vincent van Gogh, The Hague, 1990, p. 571, no. 229 (old no. 200), p. 572-573, no. 203 (old no. 202), p. 576, no. 232 (old no. 203), p. 600, no. 242 (old no. 210); Michiel van der Mast & Charles Dumas (ed.), Van Gogh en Den Haag, Zwolle, 1990, no. 56, illustrated p. 50; Jacob-Baart de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh, The Complete Works on Paper, Catalogue raisonné, San Francisco, 1992, vol. I, no. 941, vol. II, illustrated pl. XXX ; Jan Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 1996, no. 146, illustrated p. 41

Provenance:

C. M. van Gogh Art Gallery (the artist's uncle), Amsterdam; Kunsthandel W. Walrecht, The Hague; H.P. Bremmer, The Hague, thence by descent; Mrs Bremmer-Hollman (sale: Christie's, Amsterdam, 12th December 1990, lot 255); Purchased at the above sale by the present owner