File:Vincent van Gogh - Letter VGM 491 - The Yellow House F1453 JH 1590.jpg
Vincent van Gogh - Letter VGM 491 - The Yellow House F1453 JH 1590.jpg
Vincent van Gogh: English: The Yellow House at Arles in letter VGM 691   (  ) Artist artist QS:P170,Q5582 Title English: The Yellow House at Arles in letter VGM 691 Date 1888 date QS:P571,+1888-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 Medium pen and ink Dimensions height: 13 cm (5.1 in); width: 20.5 cm (8 in) dimensions QS:P2048,13U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,20.5U174728 Object history Tanner Art Gallery, Zurich Brienz, Switzerland, N. Dreher [acquired 1918] Private collection, Europe (by descent from the above); sale, Christie's, London, 24 June 2003, lot 52 Present owner; sale, Christies's, New York, 5 November 2013, lot 16, $5,485,000 Exhibition history Kunsthaus Zürich, Vincent van Gogh, July-August 1924, p. 36, no. 99. Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings, July-December 2005, p. 286, no. 97 (recto illustrated in color, p. 287). London, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters, January-April 2010, p. 180, no. 99 (recto illustrated in color, p. 181). Notes Catalogues raisonnés: F1453: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 1453 . JH1590 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no.  1590. Letters 691 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "Likewise croquis of a square no. 30 canvas showing the house and its surroundings under a sulphur sun, under a pure cobalt sky. That’s a really difficult subject! But I want to conquer it for that very reason. Because it’s tremendous, these yellow houses in the sunlight and then the incomparable freshness of the blue. All the ground’s yellow, too. I’ll send you another, better drawing of it than this croquis from memory; the house to the left is pink, with green shutters; the one that’s shaded by a tree, that’s the restaurant where I go to eat supper every day. My friend the postman lives at the bottom of the street on the left, between the two railway bridges. The night café that I painted isn’t in the painting; it’s to the left of the restaurant. Milliet finds it horrible ..." Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5737639 (sale 2788, lot 16) Permission (Reusing this file)