DEN BOSCH and The Noordbrabants Museum has a special watercolor painting of Vincent Van Gogh purchased. It comes to ” The gardens of the vicarage in Nuenen.’ Reports that the museum, which speaks about ‘the most important purchase ever made.’
The watercolor is the first experiment of Van Gogh with people walking, and couples in a garden. The museum has the work purchased because it is an overview of the Brabant period of the artist from Zundert. The price is not disclosed.
Van Gogh lived more than a year and a half with his parents in the vicarage in Nuenen. He was working in the garden of the rectory. A painting that the painter of the garden made, went in the Second world War is lost and is known only from black-and-white reproductions.
private collection
The watercolor is in 1903, presumably bought by the art critic and kunstpedagoog Hendrik Bremer, who later became advisor was Helene Kröller-Müller. After his death, continued to work in his family and in 1969 ended up working in the private collection that the museum, it now has acquired.
In 2003 popped up the watercolor. During the art fair TEFAF offered by the Hague art dealer Ivo Bouwman, the work. It was then to be seen in the Gemeentemuseum in the Hague.
Modified: Wednesday december 7, 2016 – 11:23
Author: Ineke Inklaar
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