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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 3, 2010 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale | 15 | $****** - ****** | Une liseuse de romans | |||
Jun 21, 2005 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art - Evening Sale | 18 | $****** - ****** | Liseuse de romans | |||
Jun 24, 2003 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 55 | $****** - ****** | Une liseuse de romans |
paintings
73 x 92.1 cm (28.74 x 36.26 in)
oil on canvas
Cornelis Hoogendijk, Amsterdam;
sale, Frederick Müller, Amsterdam, 21-22 May 1912, lot 22. Paul Rosenberg, Paris. Christian Tetzen-Lund, Copenhagen (by 1922);
sale, Winkel and Magnussen, Copenhagen, 10 June 1936, lot 3. Mrs. Karen Krogh, Denmark. John Hay Whitney, New York (by 1947). The Texas Contemporary Art Association, Houston (acquired from the above, 1951). Marlborough Fine Art, London (by 1953). Mr. and Mrs. Louis Frank, London (acquired from the above, circa 1955).
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 24 June 2003, lot 55.
Private collection, United States (acquired at the above sale);
sale, Christie's, London, 21 June 2005, lot 18.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, XIX & XX Century French Masters, February-March 1953, no. 47 (illustrated). New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Van Gogh, March-April 1955, no. 38. Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art Français, 1750-1950, May-September 1957, no. 103. London, Marlborough Fine Art, A Great Period of French Painting, June-July 1963, no. 39. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Post-Impressionism, Cross-currents in European and American Painting 1880-1906, May-September 1980, no. 69. The Art Institute of Chicago and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South, September 2001-June 2002, p. 201, no. 60 (illustrated). Treviso, Casa dei Carraresi, L'impressionismo e l'età di Van Gogh, November 2002-March 2003, p. 437, no. 153 (illustrated). New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night, September 2008-June 2009, p. 131, no. 93 (illustrated in color).
J. Meier-Graefe, Vincent, Munich, 1921, vol. II, pl. 29 (illustrated). J. Meier-Graefe, Vincent van Gogh, London, 1922, vol. I, pp. 74 and 75 (illustrated, pl. 29; titled Reading). J.B. de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh, Paris, 1928, no. 497 (illustrated). C. Tetzen-Lund, Samling af moderne Fransk Malerkunst, Copenhagen, 1934, no. 38 (illustrated, pl. 25; titled La liseuse de roman dans une bibliothèque). W. Scherjon and W. Jos de Gruyter, Vincent van Gogh's Great Period, Arles, St Rémy and Auvers sur Oise, Amsterdam, 1937, p. 159, no. 136 (illustrated). D. Lord, ed., Vincent van Gogh: Letters to Emile Bernard, New York, 1938, pp. 97 and 103. J.B. de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh, Paris, 1939, p. 366, no. 517 (illustrated). The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh, London, 1958, vol. III, pp. 104-105, 448 and 522, no. 562. P. Lecaldano, ed., L'opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh e i suoi nessi grafici, Milan, 1965, p. 609. J.B. de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam, 1970, p. 222, no. F497 (illustrated). M. Roskill, Van Gogh, Gauguin and the Impressionist Circle, New York, 1970, pp. 145 and 300, no. 126 (illustrated; titled Novel Reader in a Library). J. Hulsker, The Complete Van Gogh, Paintings, Drawings and Sketches, Oxford, 1980, p. 375, no. 1632 (illustrated; titled Woman Reading Novel). R. Pickvance, Van Gogh in Arles, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1984, p. 194. I.F. Walther and R. Metzger, Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Paintings, Cologne, 1989, vol. II, p. 454 (illustrated). R. Dorn, Décoration, Vincent van Gogh's Werkreihe für das Gelbe Haus in Arles, Hildesheim, 1990, pp. 423-424. J. Sund, True to Temperament, Van Gogh and French Naturalist Literature, London, 1992, p. 211 (illustrated in color, pl. 13). H. Henkels, "Cézanne en Van Gogh in the Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: de collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866-1911)" in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 1993, no. 3/4, p. 193, fig. 59 (illustrated). J. Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh, Paintings, Drawings and Sketches, Amsterdam, 1996, p. 375, no. 1632 (illustrated). C. Zemel, Van Gogh's Progress, Utopia, Modernity, and Late-Nineteenth-Century Art, Berkeley, 1997, p. 128, (illustrated, fi. 74). I.F. Walther and R. Metzger, Vincent van Gogh, The Complete Paintings, Cologne, 2001, p. 454 (illustrated in color).
