Décoration for the Yellow House
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Décoration for the Yellow House was the main project Vincent van Gogh focused on in Arles, from August 1888 until his breakdown the day before Christmas. This Décoration had no pre-defined form or size; the central idea of the Décoration grew step by step, with the progress of his work. Starting with the Sunflowers, portraits were included in the next step. Finally, mid-September 1888, the idea took shape: from this time on he concentrated on size 30 canvases (Toiles de 30), which were all meant to form part of this Décoration.[1]
First idea: The Sunflowers, August 1888[]
Vase with Three Sunflowers
(Arles, August 1888)
Private collectionVase with Six Sunflowers
(Arles, August 1888)
Private collection, Japan, destroyed by fire in World War II on 6 August 1945 [1]Vase with Twelve Sunflowers
(Arles, August 1888)
Neue Pinakothek, MunichVase with Fifteen Sunflowers
(Arles, August 1888)
National Gallery, London
Second step: The Portraits, September - October 1888[]
Joseph Roulin
(The Postmaster)
Museum of Fine Arts, BostonPatience Escalier
(The Old Peasant)
Private collectionEugène Boch
(The Poet)
Musée d'Orsay, ParisPaul-Eugène Milliet
(The Lover)
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Third step and definite solution: The Toiles de 30-Décoration, October - December 1888[]
The Night Café
(September 1888)
Yale University Art GalleryThe Yellow House
(September 1888)
Van Gogh Museum, AmsterdamStarry Night Over the Rhone
(September 1888)
Musée d'Orsay, ParisPublic Garden
Kröller-Müller Museum, OtterloPublic garden
Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.Garden of the Poet III
(October 1888)
Private collectionRailway Bridge
(October 1888)
Private collectionTrinquetaille Bridge
(October 1888)
Private collectionBedroom in Arles
(October 1888)
Van Gogh Museum, AmsterdamLes Alyscamps
(October 1888)
Private collectionThe Red Vineyard
(November 1888) sold to Anna Boch[2]
MoscowVan Gogh's Chair
(November 1888)
National Gallery, LondonGauguin's Armchair
(November 1888)
Van Gogh Museum, AmsterdamIn the Library
(November 1888)
Private collectionSouvenir du jardin
(November 1888)
Hermitage Museum, St. PetersburgLes Arènes
(December 1888)
Hermitage Museum, St. PetersburgL'Arlésienne
(November 1888)
Musée d'Orsay, ParisLa Berceuse
(December 1888)
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
- For a related project by Van Gogh executed at the same time, in November/December 1888, see The Roulin Family series
Epilogue: The Toiles de 30, January - April 1889[]
Repetitions[]
Vase with Twelve Flowers
(Arles, January 1889)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PhiladelphiaVase with Fifteen Sunflowers
(Arles, January, 1889)
Van Gogh Museum, AmsterdamVase with Fifteen Sunflowers
(Arles, January 1889)
Sompo Japan Museum of Art, TokyoLa Berceuse
Museum of Fine Arts, BostonL'Arlésienne
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Spring Subjects[]
View of Arles, Flowering Orchards, spring 1889
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Continuation[]
Later, in Saint-Rémy as well as in Auvers, size 30 canvases form the body of Van Gogh's work, and he continued conceiving series and groups of work based on this size. See The Wheat Field, the Copies by Vincent van Gogh and the Display at Les XX 1890, all from Saint-Rèmy, and the Auvers size 30 canvases.
Resources[]
Notes[]
- ^ This fact, widely neglected for decades, recently seems to have become common knowledge; see Zemel, Schneede.
- ^ The Red Vineyard, the only painting van Gogh sold during his lifetime
References[]
- Roland Dorn (1990). Décoration: Vincent van Goghs Werkreihe für das Gelbe Haus in Arles. Georg Olms Verlag. ISBN 978-3-487-09098-6.
- Paintings of Arles by Vincent van Gogh
- 1888 paintings
- Collections of the Van Gogh Museum