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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 4, 2020 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist, Modern & Surrealist Art Evening Sale | 29 | $****** - ****** | STUDY OF A BLACKSMITH | |||
May 12, 1988 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Drawings & Watercolours | 107 | Estimates not disclosed | Le garcon forgeron |
Works on Paper
45 x 24 cm (17.72 x 9.45 in)
pencil on paper
H. P. Bremmer, The Hague (acquired by 1911; until 1956)
Private Collection, The Hague (by descent from the above 1956-1960)
Private Collection, Germany
Sale: Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern, 11th-13th June 1969, lot 494
Mayfair Kunst, Zug (acquired by 1970)
Sale: Christie's, New York, 12th May 1988, lot 107
Private Collection, New York
Avanti Galleries Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1993
Paris, Hotel George V, Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, 2ème Salon du Dessin de Collection, 1992
New York, Avanti Galleries Inc., Vincent van Gogh: Works from the Dutch Period, 1995, no. 2, illustrated in the catalogue
Jacob-Baart de la Faille, L'Œuvre de Vincent van Gogh: Catalogue raisonné, Paris & Brussels, 1928, vol. III, no. 1044, catalogued p. 51; vol. IV, no. 1044, illustrated pl. LIV
Walther Vanbeselaere, De hollandsche periode (1880-1885) in het werk van Vincent van Gogh, Antwerp, 1937, pp. 92, 185 & 410
Jacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings, London, 1970, no. F 1044, illustrated p. 386 (titled The Blacksmith: Facing Right)
Jan Hulsker, The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, New York & Oxford, 1980, no. 208, illustrated p. 55 (titled A Carpenter with Apron)
Jan Hulsker, The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, New York, 1984, no. 208, illustrated p. 55 (titled A Carpenter with Apron)
Jan Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, Amsterdam, 1996, no. 208, illustrated p. 55 (titled A Carpenter with Apron)
Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten & Nienke Bakker (eds.), Vincent van Gogh, the letters. The complete illustrated and annotated edition, London, 2009, vol. II, letter no. 272, mentioned p. 172
pencil on paper
45 by 24cm.
17 3/4 by 9 1/2 in.
Executed in The Hague in February-March 1882.
