Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Sheaves and Arles in the Background



Vincent van Gogh - Wheat Field with Sheaves and Arles in the Background



Vincent van Gogh
Wheat Field with Sheaves and Arles in the Background
1888
317 x 242 mm
Pen
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
F 1491
JH 1516

Literature
Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heugten, and Marije Vellekoop, Vincent van Gogh, New York; Amsterdam; New Haven and London, 2005, fig. 27, 187


Exhibitions

2008 Van Gogh: Gezeichnete Bilder, Nr. 80
2005 Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings, Nr. 70

Provenance

Sent by the artist to Émile Bernard, Saint-Briac, between 17 and 20 July 1888, until it was sold to Ambroise Vollard, Paris, probably between 1899 and 1904
Henri Matisse, Paris, by 1905
Pierre Matisse, New York, 1941-47
sold to Charles Boyer, Beverly Hills
E. Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Va., April 1969
their gift to the National Gallery of Art, 1985
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External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1985.64.91

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