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Vincent van Gogh: English: The Fisherman: Facing Right   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Vincent van Gogh  (1853–1890)  wikidata:Q5582 s:en:Author:Vincent van Gogh q:en:Vincent van Gogh
 
Vincent van Gogh
Alternative names
Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description Dutch painter, draftsperson and printmaker
Date of birth/death 30 March 1853 Edit this at Wikidata 29 July 1890 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Zundert Edit this at Wikidata Auvers-sur-Oise
Work period between circa 1880 and circa July 1890
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1890-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Netherlands (Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886
date QS:P,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
),
Paris (1886–1887), Arles (1888–1889),
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889–1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5582
Title
English: The Fisherman: Facing Right
Date November 1882 (De La Faille) 1883 (Christie's)
Medium pencil, pen and brown ink on paper
Dimensions height: 48.5 cm (19 in); width: 22.8 cm (8.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,48.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,22.8U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history
  • Dr H.P. Bremmer, The Hague.
  • F. Bremmer, The Hague.
  • E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam.
  • F.A.C. Guépin, London, and thence by descent to the present owner in 1966.
Exhibition history Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, The Genius of Van Gogh, May - June 1982, no. 6 (illustrated p. 23).
Inscriptions False signature in lower right: Vincent (De La Faille)
Notes

Catalogues raisonnés:

  • F1049: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 1049 .
  • JH312 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no.  312.
  • Vincent drew obsessively from models at this period (Naifeh and Smith pp. 270-7), spending a great deal of his allowance on them and even purchasing clothes for them as he did in this case with the sou'wester he provided. This study is typical of many at the time, but the head has been especially finely modelled. Christie's lot notes observe "The figure’s withdrawn stare, however, betrays Van Gogh’s sensitive eye, turning the image into a compassionate homage to the harsh life of the fisherman, possibly even carrying some religious undertones, resonating with the Biblical symbolism of the subject."
  • Letters (sou'wester)
  • Letter 163 to Theodorus van Gogh and Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Brussels, on or about Wednesday, 16 February 1881. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "As regards that other suit, I have another objective apart from wearing it myself for as long as possible, for the fact is that when it’s a bit older it will serve me in another way. You see, I’ll gradually need a small collection of work-clothes with which to dress the models for my drawings.
    The blue smock of Brabant, for example, the grey linen suit that the miners wear and their leather hat, also a straw hat and clogs, a fisherman’s costume of brown fustian and a sou’wester. And most definitely the clothing made of that kind of black or brown velvet that’s very picturesque and characteristic — furthermore, a red doublet or vest.
    Likewise a couple of women’s costumes, such as that of Kempen and the area of Antwerp with the Brabantian cap and that of Blankenberge, for example, or Scheveningen or Katwijk."
References
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5766398 (sale 1505, lot 46)
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