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Still Life: Vase with Roses

Oil on canvas
71.0 x 90.0 cm.
Saint-Rémy: May, 1890
F 681, JH 1976

Washington: National Gallery of Art

Question: I've seen other photographs of this painting and the colours appear quite different. Can you explain this? Have the colours faded over the years?

Answer.


Provenance

Owner City Country Date acquired
Mr. Gallimard Paris France
Bernheim Jeune Art Gallery Paris France
Alex Reid and Lefevre Art Gallery London United Kingdom
Marie Harriman Art Gallery New York United States
Mr. and Mrs. William Averell Harriman New York United States 1930
National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. United States 1991


Exhibitions

Year City Country Venue Exhibit Name Start Date End Date No.
1904 Berlin Germany Paul Cassirer


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1908 Paris (2) France Galerie Eugène Druet Quelques Oeuvres de Vincent van Gogh 6 January 1908 18 January 1908 76
1917 Zurich (2) Switzerland Kunsthaus Zurich Französische Kunst des XIX und XX 5 October 1917 4 November 1917 111
1925 Paris (2) France Paul Rosenberg Les grandes influences au dix-neuvième siècle d'Ingres à Cézanne 15 January 1925 7 February 1925 8
1926 Paris France Societé des Artistes Indépendants Trente ans d'art indépendant rétrospective 1884-1914 20 February 1926 21 March 1926 2957
1927 Paris France Galerie Bernheim-Jeune Vincent van Gogh l'époque française 20 June 1927 2 July 1927
1929 London (2) United Kingdom Alex Reid and Lefèvre Ten Masterpieces by Nineteenth Century French Painters


1929 Lucerne Switzerland
Exposition de Peintures de l'École Impressionniste et Néo-Impressioniste

24
1930 New York (3) United States Marie Harriman Gallery Opening Exhibition


1930 Buffalo United States Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Exhibition Commemorating the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Opening of the Albright Art Gallery

66
1931 Cambridge United States Fogg Art Museum Still Life

18
1932 New York United States M. Knoedler and Co. Flowers by French Painters XIX-XX Centuries

17
1933 Chicago United States Art Institute of Chicago A Century of Progress, Paintings and Sculpture 1 June 1933 1 November 1933 386
1935-36 New York United States Museum of Modern Art Vincent van Gogh 5 November 1935 5 January 1936 58
1936 Philadelphia United States Philadelphia Museum of Art Vincent van Gogh 11 January 1936 10 February 1936 58
1936 Boston United States Museum of Fine Arts Vincent van Gogh 19 February 1936 15 March 1936 58
1936 Cleveland (1) United States Cleveland Museum of Art Vincent van Gogh 25 March 1936 19 April 1936 58
1936 San Francisco United States California Palace of the Legion of Honor Vincent van Gogh 28 April 1936 24 May 1936 58
1936 Kansas City United States William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum Vincent van Gogh 9 June 1936 10 July 1936 58
1936 Minneapolis United States Minneapolis Institute of Arts Vincent van Gogh 20 July 1936 17 August 1936 58
1936 Chicago United States Art Institute of Chicago Vincent van Gogh 26 August 1936 23 September 1936 58
1936 Detroit United States Detroit Institute of Arts Vincent van Gogh 6 October 1936 28 October 1936 58
1939 New York (2) United States Marie Harriman Gallery Modern French Masters

15
1940 New York (2) United States New York World's Fair Masterpieces of Art

363
1942 Baltimore United States Baltimore Museum of Art Paintings by Van Gogh 18 September 1942 18 October 1942 27
1942 Worcester United States Worcester Art Museum Paintings by Van Gogh 28 October 1942 28 November 1942 27
1943 New York (2) United States Wildenstein and Co. The Art and Life of Vincent van Gogh. Loan Exhibition in Aid of American and Dutch War Relief 6 October 1943 7 November 1943 58
1953 New York (2) United States Paul Rosenberg Collector's Choice 17 March 1953 18 April 1953 13
1954 New York United States Wildenstein and Co. Magic of Flowers in Painting 12 April 1954 15 May 1954 28
1955 New York (2) United States Wildenstein and Co. Vincent van Gogh Loan Exhibition 24 March 1955 30 April 1955 69
1959 Washington, D.C. United States National Gallery of Art Masterpieces of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting 25 April 1959 24 May 1959 55
1960 New Haven United States Yale University Art Gallery Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Collected by Yale Alumni 19 May 1960 26 June 1960 71
1961 Washington, D.C. United States National Gallery of Art Exhibition of the Marie and Averell Harriman Collection

17
1963 Philadelphia United States Philadelphia Museum of Art A World of Flowers 2 May 1963 9 June 1963 ---
1980 Washington, D.C. United States National Gallery of Art Post-impressionism. Cross-Currents in European and American Painting 1880-1906 25 May 1980 1 September 1980 77
1991 Washington, D.C. United States National Gallery of Art Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art


1999 Winnipeg Canada Winnipeg Art Gallery Art in the Age of Van Gogh: Dutch Paintings from the Rijksmuseum 16 May 1999 11 July 1999
1999 Ottawa Canada National Gallery of Canada Van Gogh's Iris. Masterpiece in Focus 11 June 1999 16 September 1999
2001-02 Washington, D.C. United States Phillips Collection Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Still Life Painting 22 September 2001 13 January 2002 79
2002 Boston United States Museum of Fine Arts Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Still Life Painting 17 February 2002 9 June 2002


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