Entrance to a Quarry

Currently on view

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

oil on canvas, 60 cm x 74.5 cm

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

Vincent intended his painting Entrance to a Quarry to be 'matt in colour without looking impressive'. It was the first time since moving to France that he returned to a muted colour palette. In the Netherlands, he had always used sober colours. But since then, he had adopted the bright hues of the Impressionists. This painting turned out very differently from his Dutch works, however, because he used different pigments.

While working on this painting, Van Gogh was not feeling well: he sensed an attack of his illness coming on. Nonetheless, he was pleased with the result: 'there's something sad in [it] that's healthy, and that's why it doesn't annoy me.'

F-number
F0744
JH-number
JH1802
Object number
s0041V1962
Dimensions
60 cm x 74.5 cm, 80.3 cm x 93.7 cm
Provenance
Sent by the artist from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, at the end of September 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; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 16 December 1930; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh 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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