Corner of a Chapel (Coin de chapelle)

Emile Bernard (1868 - 1941), 1888

reed pen and ink and watercolour on paper, 31.2 cm x 20 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Object number
d0644V1962
Dimensions
31.2 cm x 20 cm
Provenance
Sent by the artist from Saint-Briac to Vincent van Gogh, Arles; received by him on 29 July 1888; sent by Vincent van Gogh to his brother, Theo van Gogh, Paris, the same day; after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren, to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 10 July 1962 (ratified 28 December 1970); agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State, 21 July 1962; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973, and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
artist
Emile Bernard
Credits (obliged to state)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Pont-Aven. Gauguin und sein Kreis in der Bretagne, 5 March-11 April 1966, no. 128

London, Tate Gallery, Gauguin and the Pont-Aven group, 7 January-13 February 1966, no. 114

Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Les amis de Van Gogh, 9 November-17 December 1960

Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila, Vincent van Gogh and the birth of Cloisonism, 1981, pp. 294-295

Uitert, Evert van, Hoyle, Michael, Crimpen, Han van, The Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, 1987, p. 372

Vollard, Ambroise, Bernard, Emile, Lettres de Vincent van Gogh à Emile Bernard, 1911, pp. 99, 106

Sutton, D., White, Gabriel, Gauguin and the Pont-Aven group, 1966, pp. 33-34

Roskill, Mark W., Van Gogh, Gauguin and French painting of the 1880s : a catalogue raisonné of key works, 1970, pp. 219-220

Vellekoop, Marije, Zwikker, Roelie, Webb, D., Hageman, Monique, Vincent van Gogh : drawings [4], Arles, Saint-Rémy & Auvers-sur-Oise 1888-1890, 2007, vol. 4, p. 147

Jansen, Leo, Luijten, Hans, Bakker, Nienke, Vincent van Gogh : painted with words : the letters to Émile Bernard, 2007, pp. 226, 231, 242, 366

Jansen, Leo, Luijten, Hans, Bakker, Nienke, Vincent van Gogh - The Letters : The complete illustrated and annotated edition : Volume 4 : Arles, 1888-1889, 2009, pp. 196-197, 200, 202

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