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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 46 | $****** - ****** | PEOPLE SITTING ON A BENCH IN BEZUIDENHOUT, THE HAGUE |
Works on Paper
27.3 x 38.1 cm (10.75 x 15 in)
Watercolor heightened with gouache on paper
Signed Vincent (lower left)
(probably) Anna Cornelia van Gogh-Carbentus, Nuenen/Breda (mother of the artist)
Janus Schrauwen, Breda (acquired from the above in 1888)
Jan C. Couvreur, Breda (acquired from the above on August 14, 1902)
Kees Mouwen Jr. & Willem van Bakel, Breda (acquired from the above in 1902-03)
Sebald Rudolf Steinmetz, Amsterdam
R. Th. Steinmetz, Ellecom, Netherlands (by descent from the above)
R. Steinmetz, The Hague (by descent from the above by 1969)
Private Collection, Germany (by descent from the above and sold: Sotheby's Parke Bernet, London, June 30, 1976, lot 95)
Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Rotterdam, Kunstzalen, Oldenzeel, Vincent Van Gogh, 1903, no. 70
Rotterdam, Kunstzalen, Oldenzeel, Vincent Van Gogh, 1904, no. 49
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel E. J. Van Wisselingh, Vincent Van Gogh: Quelques Oeuvres de l'Epoque 1881-86, provenant de collections particulières néerlandaises, 1956, no. 5 (titled Pêcheurs de Scheveningue assis sur un banc)
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel E. J. Van Wisselingh, Vincent Van Gogh: aquarelles et dessins de l'époque 1881-85 provenant de collections particulières néerlandaises, 1961, no. 15, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Pêcheurs de Schevinggue assis sur un banc)
Jacob Baart de la Faille, Vincent Van Gogh, Paris & Brussels, 1928, vol. III, no. F951, catalogued p. 30; vol. IV, no. F951, illustrated pl. XXVII (titled Pêcheurs de Scheveningue assis sur un banc)
Walther Vanbeselaere, De Hollandasche periode (1880-85) in het werk van Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), Antwerp, 1937, mentioned pp. 85, 162 & 408
Catalogue of 271 Works by Vincent van Gogh Belonging to the Collection of the State Museum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, 1956, discussed p. 9
Jacob Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam, 1970, no. F951, illustrated p. 355
Jan Hulsker, The Complete Van Gogh, Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, New York, 1980, no. 197, illustrated p. 53 (titled Bench with Four Persons (and Baby))
Van Gogh en den Haag (exhibition catalogue), Haags Historisch Museum, The Hague, 1990, illustrated p. 138 (titled Bank mit vier personen en een baby)
Jacob Baart de la Faille, Vincent Van Gogh, The Complete Works on Paper, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1992, vol. I, no. 951, catalogued p. 245; vol. II, illustrated pl. XXVII
Jan Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh, Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, 1996, no. 197, illustrated p. 53 (titled Bench with Four Persons (and Baby))
Sjraar van Heugten, Vincent Van Gogh, Drawings, The Early Years 1880-1883, Amsterdam & London, 1996, vol. I, illustrated p. 126 (titled Four People Sitting on a Bench)
Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten & Nienke Bakker, Vincent van Gogh, The Letters, The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition, Volume 2: The Hague, 1881-1883, London, 2009, illustrated pp. 151 & 153-54
Signed Vincent (lower left)
Watercolor heightened with gouache on paper
10 3/4 by 15 in.
27.3 by 38.1 cm
Executed in The Hague in September 1882.
