BANK OF THE OISE AT AUVERS
“I love the vibrant colors and quick brush strokes that make the trees move. I can't help but smile every time I pass by this painting. I have to resist the urge to jump in an empty canoe and float down the river. ”
Danielle Brycz, Senior Communications Specialist
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
-
Framed: 37 x 44 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (94 x112.4 x8.9 cm.)
Unframed: 28 7/8 x 36 7/8 in. (73.3 x 93.7 cm.)
- Department
- European Painting
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
- Accession No.
- 70.159
- Provenance
- Amsterdam, Collection Mrs. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (up until 1905);
Berlin, Paul Cassirer Gallery (dealer) (acquired from J. van Gogh-Bonger in 1905);
Vienna, Collection Carl Reininghaus;
Berlin, Paul Cassirer Gallery (dealer--exh. May-June 1914, cat. 143);
Berlin, Collection Mrs. F. O. Oppenheim (1914);
Berlin, Thannhauser Art Gallery (dealer-1927-1928);
New York, Knoedler & Co. (dealer-1931-1935);
Grosse Pointe Farms, Collection Robert H. Tannahill (purchased from Knoedler) by whom bequeathed to the DIA in 1970.
- Keywords
-
canvas, oil, paint, marine
Published References
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, July-August 1905, no 145 (lent by Mrs. J. van Gogh- Bonger).
Berlin, Paul Cassirer Gallery, Berlin, 1914, cat. 143.
Berlin, Galerie Tannhauser, Berlin, 1927, cat. 1136.
Coquiot, G., ¦Vincent van Gogh,¦ Paris, 1923, p. 321.
Faille, J. B. de la, ¦L'Oeuvre de van Gogh, Catalogue Raisonné,¦ Paris, 1928, vol. 1, p. 226, no. 798, vol. 2, pl. 223.
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress Exhibition", 1933, Cat. 375 (lent by M, Knoedler & Co.).
"Boats," ¦Art News,¦ vol. 31, June 1933, p. 3, (ill).
Uhde, W., ¦Van Gogh,¦ London, 1936, p. 71, no. 35, repr. (owner as Knoedler & Co.).
Goldscheider, L., and Uhde, W., ¦Vincent Van Gogh,¦ London, 1937, no. 101, pl. 101 (as Bank of the River, With Rowing Boats at Auvers , and cited as the property of Knoedler & Co.).
Goldscheider, L. and Uhde, W., ¦Vincent van Gogh,¦ New York, 1941, p. 5, no. 102, pl. 102 (erroneously citing owner as Berlin, Mrs. F. Oppenheim-photo Hanfstaengl).
Faille, J. B. de la, ¦Vincent van Gogh,¦ 2nd ed, New York, 1939, p. 537, no. 785, repr.
Finley, G. E, ¦Van Gogh¦, New York, 1966, p. 29, pl. 77 (erroneously as in Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller).
¦McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art,¦ London, 1969, vol. 5, pp. 407-408.
Detroit, DIA, ¦The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to The Detroit Institute of Arts, ¦ (cat. accompanying the exh. "A Collectors Treausure: The Tannahill Bequest,") 1970, pp. 18, 27, color repr.
Faille, J. B. de la, ¦The Works of Vincent Van Gogh,¦ 3rd ed, Amsterdam: Muelenhoff, 1970, p. 304, F798, p. 305, repr.
¦DIA Handbook,¦ 1971, p. 163, repr.
Lecaldano, P., ¦L'Opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh,¦ Milan, 1971, vol. 2, pp. 231-232, no. 844, repr..
Hulsker, J., ¦The Complete Van Gogh,¦ Amsterdam, 1977, p. 464, no.2021, repr.
Barrielle, J.F., ¦La Vie et l'Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh,¦ Paris, 1984, p. 191 repr.
Mothe, A., ¦Vincent Van Gogh à Auvers-sur-Oise,¦ Paris, 1987, pp. 158-159, repr.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Van Gogh in Saint Rémy and Auvers", 1986-1987, pp.245-247, cat. 70, repr. (cat. by Ronald Pickvance who dates painting to July, 1890).
Feilchenfeldt, W., ¦Vincent Van Gogh & Paul Cassirer, Berlin,¦ Zwolle, 1988, p. 121, no. F798 repr.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, "Vincent van Gogh", 1990, p. 266, cat. 121, repr.
Supinen, M., "Julien Leclercq: a Champion of the unknown Vincent van Gogh", ¦Jong Holland,¦ no. 6, 1990, pp. 5-14, and esp. p. 14, fig. 12.
Hulsker, J., ¦The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches,¦ Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 1996, pp. 462, 464, no. 2021, repr (as June, 1890).
Zemel, C., ¦Van Gogh's Progress Utopia, Modernity, and Late-Nineteenth Century Art,¦ Berkeley, Los Angeles, & London, 1997, p. 217, fig. 127.
Walther, I. F. & Metzger, R., ¦Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Paintings,¦ Cologne, 1997, p. 681, repr.
Washington, D. C., The Phillips Collection, "Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts", 2000-2001, pp. 80, 139, repr.
Wissman, F. W., ¦European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes,¦ Detroit, DIA, 2000, pp. 97-99, repr.
DIA, Annual Report 2003, ¦Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts¦, vol. 77, no. 3/4, p. 8 (ill. only).
Madrid, Museo Thuyssen-Bornemisza, "Van Gogh Los Ultimos Paisajes Auvers-sur-Oise, 20 de mayo-29 de julio 1890", pp. 35, 82-83, 150, cat. 18, repr. (exh.
organized b y G. Solana).
Rome, Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano, "Vincent van Gogh, Timeless Country - Modern City," exh. org. by Cornelia Homburg, 2010-2011, p. 193, no. 88.
