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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 5, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 1 | $****** - ****** | Der Sämann (Zaayer) |
Works on Paper
11.7 x 7.4 cm (4.61 x 2.91 in)
Sepia Ink, partly with light blue wash, On laid paper, the full sheet
Titled "Zaayer" in the lower right
Presumably in the collection of Anthon Gerard Alexander van Rappard (1858-1892), Utrecht. Presumably in the collection of Henriëtte Elisabeth van Rappard-del Campo (1854-1910), Santpoort/Netherlands (presumably inherited from the above). Philipus de Kanter Collection, Delft. H. P. (Hendricus Petrus) Bremmer Collection, The Hague (acquired from the above in 1914). Anna Amalia “Annie” Bremmer-Hollmann Collection (1895-1989), The Hague (probably inherited from the above). Prof. Hilde Gärtner Collection, Linz (1982, gift from the above, with handwritten note on the back of the frame). Private collection, southern Germany (2011, inherited from the above).
Vincent van Gogh Aquarelles & dessins de l"époque 1881-1885, art dealer E. J. van Wisselingh, Amsterdam, April 19 - May 18, 1961, cat. no. 2.
Jan Hulsker and J. M. Meulenhoff, The New Complete Van Gogh. Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, Amsterdam/Philadelphia 1996, CR no. 32 (illustrated in b/w). Jacob Baart de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh The Complete Works on Paper. Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 1, San Francisco 1992, CR no. 857 (with b/w illustration, plate IX, titled “The Sower: Full Face”). Jacob Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam 1970, CR no. 857 (with b/w ill., p. 323, titled “The Sower”). Jacob Baart de la Faille, L"Œuvre de Vincent van Gogh Catalogue Raisonné (Dessins, Aquarelles, Lithographies), Paris/Brussels 1928, CR no. 857 (with title “Le sameur”). - - Vincent van Gogh , Briefe an den Maler Anthon van Rappard (1881-1885), Vienna 1937, letter dated October 15, 1881 (according to CR de la Faille, the drawing mentioned is probably the one offered here). H. P. Bremmer (ed.), Beeldende Kunst V, 2 (5, 1917-1918, with illustration on the cover). "Drawing is the root of everything." Vincent van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, June 3, 1883, The Hague Called up: December 5, 2025 - ca. 17.00 h +/- 20 min.
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
1853 - 1890
Der Sämann (Zaayer)
1881.
Sepia Ink, partly with light blue wash.
Titled "Zaayer" in the lower right. On laid paper. 11.7 x 7.4 cm (4.6 x 2.9 in), the full sheet.
The work was created in Etten between September and October 1881.
The catalogues raisonnés also mention the work under the titles “The Sower” and “Le semeur”.
• Detailed, elaborately composed small drawing from the early days of
Vincent van Gogh
"s short yet intense artistic career.
• One of the young painter"s first drawings that already reveals hints of his later, characteristic figures
• He sees the sower as a symbol of life, of the eternal cycle of growth, blossoming, and harvest.
• Part of the important Van Gogh collection of H. P. Bremmer and Annie Bremmer-Hollmann, The Hague, for more than five decades
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