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Vincent van Gogh: The Old Tower in the Fields  wikidata:Q9343997 reasonator:Q9343997
Artist
Vincent van Gogh  (1853–1890)  wikidata:Q5582 s:en:Author:Vincent van Gogh q:en:Vincent van Gogh
 
Vincent van Gogh
Alternative names
Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 30 March 1853 Edit this at Wikidata 29 July 1890 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Zundert Auvers-sur-Oise
Work period between circa 1880 and circa July 1890
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1890-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Netherlands (Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886
date QS:P,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
),
Paris (1886–1887), Arles (1888–1889),
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889–1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5582
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The old tower in the field Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lnl,"Oude Toren bij Zonsondergang"
label QS:Len,"The old Tower in the Fields"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre landscape art Edit this at Wikidata
Date May 1884 (Van Gogh Museum c.f. letter 446 n.3)
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 35 cm (13.7 in); width: 47 cm (18.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,35U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,47U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Place of creation Nuenen Edit this at Wikidata
Object history
  • Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Rotterdam (1903-1905).
  • Jan Smit, Alblasserdam (circa 1905); sale, Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 10 February 1919, lot 35.
  • M. Rutgers, The Hague; sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 9 July 1958, lot 181.
  • W.J. Holliday, Indianapolis (acquired at the above sale).
  • Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London.
  • Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 10 December 1969, lot 34.
  • Brook Street Galleries, London (by 1970).
  • Private collection, London.
  • Private collection, circa 1980.
  • Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 7 May 2014: $1,925,000
Exhibition history
  • Rotterdam, Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Vincent van Gogh, May 1903.
  • Rotterdam, Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Vincent van Gogh, 1905.
  • The Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Impressionists and their Forebears from Barbizon, March-April 1961, no. 63.
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References
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5790823 (sale 2846, lot 267, New York, 7 May 2014)

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