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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibitions of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, January 4-Janurary 18, 1929, cat. 18.

Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, March 6-April 6,1929, cat. 94 (ill.).

New York, Museum of Modern Art, First Loan Exhibition, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 1929, cat. 94 (ill.).

Chicago, Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Special View for the Benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society, January 20-22, 1933, cat. 30.

Northampton, Mass., Single Picture Exhibition, Summer 1935.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Gogh, Paintings and Drawings, 1949–1950; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1950, cat. 55 (ill.).

Kansas City, Mo., Nelson-Atkins Gallery, Tracing the History of Modern Painting, January 19, 1961–February 28, 1961.

Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27-August 31, 1980, cat. 44 (ill.).

Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18-December 17, 1986, cat. 41 (ill.), traveled to Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5-February 2, 1986 and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4-April 13, 1986.

Leningrad, Hermitage and Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, From Delacroix to Matisse: Great French Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988, not included in cat.

London, National Gallery, Degas as a Collector, May 22-August 26, 1996, cat. 25 (ill.).

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, October 1, 1997-January 11, 1998, cat. 595 (ill.).

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cézanne to Picasso Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 13, 2006-January 7, 2007, cat. 114 (ill.), traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, February 17-May 13, 2007 and Musée d’Orsay, Paris, June 18-Spetember 16, 2007.

Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 56 (ill.).

Publication History

Henri Hertz, “La crise présente des arts plastiques: Témoignage et Argument de Van Gogh,” L’Amour de l’art 3, 7 (July 1922), p. 207 (ill.).

Albert Franz Cochrane, “Fogg Museum Stages Magnificent Exhibition of French Art,” Boston Evening Transcript (March 9, 1929).

J.-B. de la Faille, L’Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2 (Paris, 1928), no. 382, pl. 104.

Clarence J. Bulliet, “Fogg Museum Joins in Fight on Fog [Pardon!],” Chicago Evening Post (April 16, 1929).

Smith College Museum of Art Bulletin (1935), no. 16, p. 18.

Lamberto Vitali, Vincent van Gogh (1936), pl. 5.

J.-B. de La Faille and Charles Terrasse, Vincent van Gogh (Paris, 1939), p. 241 (ill.).

Daniel Catton Rich, “The Kate L. Brewster Bequest,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 44 (1955), pp. 51, 55 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 182.

Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,: Apollo (September 1966), p. 203.

Paolo Lecaldano, L’opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh e i suoi nessi grafici: Da Etten a Parigi vol. 1 (Milan, 1977), no. 451.

Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, Vincent van Gogh: His Paris Period 1886-1888 (Utrecht and The Hague, 1976), p. 110.

Jan Hulsker, The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches (New York, 1980), pp. 296, 300, no. 1337 (ill.).

Chris Stolwijk and Han Veenenbos, The Account Book of Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger (Amsterdam and Leiden, 2002), p. 25, n. 33.

The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 56, p. 121 (ill.).

Ownership History

Theo van Gogh, the artist brother, Paris; given to Émile Bernard, Paris by Andries Bonger, Theo van Gogh’s brother in law, ca. March 1894, or bought by Bernard from Julien Tanquy [according to Stolwijk and Veenenbos 2002]; sold to Ambroise Vollard, Paris, August 14, 1894 [Vollard Archives, MS 421 (4,3) fol. 4, August 14, 1894; see also New York 2006-7]; sold to Edgar Degas (died 1917), Paris, possibly October 1895 [Degas inventory no. 173; see New York 1997-98]; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 25-26, 1918, lot 29 as Pommes, poires, citron et raisin; sold to Paul Rosenberg, Paris for 16,500 francs [according to New York 2006-7]. Henry-Jean Laroche, Paris, by 1928 [according to New York 2006-7]. Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago by 1928 [according to Chicago 1933 and label on the reverse]. Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Chicago by 1929 [see Chicago 1929]; given to the Art Institute, 1949.