Undergrowth

Currently on view

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, July 1889

oil on canvas, 49.0 cm x 64.3 cm

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

How do you paint light filtering down between trees? And dappled patches of light on the ground? That is what Van Gogh explores in this study, painted on a cheap piece of canvas. It was a preparatory study for a larger painting of a very similar image.

He painted this view between trees in the shady garden of the clinic in Saint-Rémy where he was a patient. He made countless works there, exploring every last corner of the grounds.

F-number
F0745
JH-number
JH1764
Object number
s0111V1962
Dimensions
49.0 cm x 64.3 cm, 66.9 cm x 82.5 cm
Provenance
With his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, after July 1889; 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, on 10 July 1962 to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam; 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; given on loan until the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973 to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from 2 June 1973 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
artist
Vincent van Gogh
Credits (obliged to state)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

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