File:Vincent van Gogh - The Old Tower at Dusk - F40 JH507.jpg
Vincent van Gogh - The Old Tower at Dusk - F40 JH507.jpg
Vincent van Gogh: The Old Tower in the Fields    Artist artist QS:P170,Q5582 Title The old tower in the field  label QS:Lnl,"Oude Toren bij Zonsondergang" label QS:Len,"The old Tower in the Fields" Object type painting  Genre landscape art  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 Collection Private collection institution QS:P195,Q768717 Place of creation Nuenen  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. Notes Catalogues raisonnés: F40: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 40 . JH507 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no.  507. The Old Church Tower at Nuenen is one of Vincent most iconic themes, of which F84 is the most quoted (the spire is missing in F84 as the tower was in the process of being demolished at the time, see letter 506). Letters Letter 446 to To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Monday, 12 and about Thursday, 15 May 1884. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "By the way, of late I’ve continued working hard on the large Weaver — which I mentioned to you recently — and also started a canvas of the little tower you know." Letter 452 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 20 July 1884. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "And have also been working again on the old tower in the fields in the evening; I’ve made a larger study of it than my previous ones — with the wheatfields around it." References ; Naifeh, Steven; Smith, Gregory White (2011) Van Gogh: The Life, Profile Books ISBN: 978-1846680106. Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5790823 (sale 2846, lot 267, New York, 7 May 2014)