Portrait of a Woman with a Book

Emile Bernard (1868 - 1941), 1931

oil on cardboard, 69 cm x 53 cm

Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (gift of Elin and Bengt Ekström)

Object number
s0409M1990
Dimensions
69 cm x 53 cm, 84 cm x 68 cm
Provenance
Bengt and Elin Ekström, Uppsala; donated by Bengt and Elin Ekström to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, 1 December 1989, and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
artist
Emile Bernard
Credits
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (gift of Elin and Bengt Ekström)

Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, 2000, p. 65

Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Tilborgh, Louis van, Vincent van Gogh and his time : Van Gogh & portraits from the Van Gogh Museum and the H.W. Mesdag Museum, 1994, p. 94-95, 127

Leeuw, Ronald de, Tilborgh, Louis van, Esner, Rachel, Becker, Edwin, Heugten, Sjraar van, Leeman, Fred, Vriend, Anita, Van Gogh Museum Journal 1995, 1995, p. 176

Luthi, Jean-Jacques, Israël, Armand, Emile Bernard : instigateur de l'école de Pont-Aven, précurseur de l'art moderne : sa vie, son oeuvre : catalogue raisonné, 2014, p. 355