Landscape

1925/1928

A white shed with a saffron-orange roof stands in the back corner of a walled garden in this vertical painting. The scene is painted with thickly textured, visible dabs, swirls, and strokes throughout. Diagonal banks of flowers in scarlet red, rust orange, pale peach, corn yellow, shell pink, and navy blue lead into the garden from the lower left to upper right. The space is enclosed with a wood fence, which is painted with vertical, caramel-brown strokes, to our left. The fence to our right of the shed disappears behind a cloud of yellow and green flowers. A tree painted with avocado-green and harvest-yellow strokes towers above the shed to our left, and more flowers and spruce-green trees grow beyond the fence to our right. The sky above is painted with textured, turquoise strokes.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Daniel Wildenstein

  • Dimensions

    overall: 46 x 38 cm (18 1/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
    framed: 59.7 x 52 x 7.6 cm (23 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 3 in.)

  • Accession

    1969.14.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie E. Blot, Paris), in 1912. Mrs. Julius Schmits, née Ida Haarhous [1861-1954], Elberfeld [later Wuppertal], before 1925.[1] Daniel L. Wildenstein [d. 2001], New York; gift 1969 to NGA.
[1] The early provenance given in J.-B. de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam, 1970: F442, under "Rejected Works" as The Small Garden includes the Berlin dealer Otto Wacker. However, according to Koldehoff, Stefan. "The Wacker Forgeries: a catalogue," The Van Gogh Museum Journal, 2002:139+, repro., this is unlikely. A stamp on the reverse of the painting has the name "Julius Schmits" followed by two words that are difficult to read, probably "Elberfeld" and possibly "Wuperfiel" or "Wuppertal." When Mrs. Schmits collection was auctioned in 1925 this painting was no longer included.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1980

  • Extended loan for use by Justice Thurgood Marshall, The Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1980-1993.

Bibliography

1928

  • Faille, J.-B. de la. L'Oeuvre de Vincent Van Gogh, catalogue raisonné. 4 vols. Paris and Brussels, 1928: 1:no. 442; 2:repro.

1930

  • Faille, J.-B. de la. Les Faux Van Gogh. Paris and Brussels, 1930: 28-29, no. 117, pl. XXXIII.

1939

  • Faille, J.-B. de la. Vincent Van Gogh. New York and Paris, 1939: 587, no. 442, repro. (rejected work).

1970

  • Faille, J.-B. de la. The Works of Vincent van Gogh: Paintings and Drawings. Amsterdam, 1970: 591, no. F442.

1971

  • Lecaldano, Paolo. L'opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh e i suoi nessi grafici. 2 vols. Milan, 1971: no. 532A.

2002

  • Koldehoff, Stefan. "The Wacker Forgeries: a catalogue." The Van Gogh Museum Journal (2002): 139+, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20192563

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