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Vincent van Gogh

The Magrot House, Cuesmes, c. 1879/1880

Not on View

Medium

graphite(?) over charcoal on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 23 x 29.4 cm (9 1/16 x 11 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Armand Hammer Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Faille 1992, Juvenilia no. XXXII

Accession Number

1991.217.65

Artists / Makers

Vincent van Gogh (artist) Dutch, 1853 - 1890

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Inscription

lower left in charcoal: V.G.; lower right in graphite: M Magrot; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 8502 A

Provenance

Charles Decrucq, Cuesmes; M.G. Delsaut, Cuesmes; Samuel Delsaut, Cuesmes (sold London, Christie, Manson & Woods, April 14, 1970, no. 41); Armand Hammer Collection, 1970; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Decrucq, Charles
Delsaut, M.G.
Delsaut, Samuel
Hammer Foundation, Armand, The

Exhibition History

1960: Vincent van Gogh, Cuesmes (Borinage), Belgium, 1960, no. 9.

1960: Vincent van Gogh, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 1960, no. 199.

1970: Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1970, starting with Smithsonian Institution, Washington; except Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1971.

1983: Remained on long term loan to LACMA following exhibition there in 1983.

1985: Exhibited with Armand Hammer collection again from 1985, beginning with Albuquerque Museum; except Birmingham Museum of Art, 1985; Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, 1985; and Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1986.

2015: Van Gogh in the Borinage: The Birth of An Artist. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons, 2015, 53-54, 255, no. 40, repr. p. 118 (color).

Bibliography

1927: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886, London, Boston, and New York, 1927, vol.1, pp. 220-25, letter number 136.

1959: Museum Journal (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam), ser. 5, no. 4 (Oct. 1959): 80-81.

1969: Tralbaut, Marc Edo. Le Mal Aimé, Lausanne, 1969, p. 63.

1970: Faille, Jacob Baart de la. The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings. Revised ed. Amsterdam, 1970: no. XXXII.

1985: Bernard, Bruce. Vincent by Himself. London, 1985: 23.

1992: Faille, Jacob Baart de la. Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Works on Paper. San Francisco, 1992: no. XXXII (Juvenilia), as "La Maison Magros")