Grapes, Lemons, Pears, and Apples

1. The artist’s brother, Theo van Gogh (died 1891), Paris; either by descent to his brother-in-law, Andres Bonger, or to Julien Tanquy [this and the following according to Stolwijk and Veenenbos, 2002, 25]. Émile Bernard, Paris, around March 1894; sold to Ambroise Vollard, Paris, Aug. 14, 1894 [Fonds Archives, MS 421 (4,3) fol. 4, August 14, 1894, Musée d’Orsay, Paris; New York 2006]; sold to Edgar Degas (died 1917), Paris, possibly Oct. 1895 [Degas inventory no. 173; New York 1997 and New York 2006]; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Mar. 25-26, 1918, lot 29 [sale catalogue in curatorial object file]; sold to Paul Rosenberg, Paris, for 16,500 francs [this and the following according to New York 2006]. Henry-Jean Laroche, Paris, by 1928. Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago, by 1928 [Chicago 1933 and label on the reverse]. Walter S. Brewster (died 1954) and Kate L. Brewster (1947), Chicago, by 1929 [Chicago 1929]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1949.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Munich, Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Nachtragswerk III zur grossen Katalogausgabe (1916), 1918, cat. 115.
• Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibitions of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, Jan. 4-18, 1929, cat. 18.
• Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Mar. 6-Apr. 6,1929, cat. 94.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, First Loan Exhibition, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, Nov. 7–Dec. 7, 1929, cat. 94.
• Chicago, Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Special View for the Benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society, Jan. 20-22, 1933, cat. 30.
• Northampton, MA, Single Picture Exhibition, Summer 1935.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Gogh, Paintings and Drawings, Oct. 21, 1949-Jan. 15, 1950, cat. 55; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1-Apr. 16, 1950.
• Kansas City, MO, Nelson-Atkins Gallery, Tracing the History of Modern Painting, Jan. 19, 1961–Feb. 28, 1961.
• Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27-Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 44.
• Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 18-Dec. 17, 1986, cat. 41; Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5-Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4-Apr. 13, 1986.
• Leningrad [now Saint Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago, Mar. 15-May 19, 1988, not included in cat.; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988. [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago]
• Art Institute of Chicago, Tour de France: Paintings, Photographs, Prints, and Drawings from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 9, 1989-Mar. 4, 1990, no cat.

• Henri Hertz, “La crise présente des arts plastiques: Témoignage et Argument de Van Gogh,” L’Amour de l’art 3, no. 7 (July 1922): 207 (ill.).
• Albert Franz Cochrane, “Fogg Museum Stages Magnificent Exhibition of French Art,” Boston Evening Transcript, March 9, 1929.
• J[acob]-B[aart] de la Faille, L’Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2 (Paris and Brussels: G. van Oest, 1928), 107 no. 382, pl. 104.
• Clarence J. Bulliet, “Fogg Museum Joins in Fight on Fog [Pardon!],” Chicago Evening Post, April 16, 1929.
• Smith College Museum of Art Bulletin (1935): 18 no. 16.
• Lamberto Vitali, Vincent van Gogh (Milan: U. Hoepli, 1936), pl. 5.
• Jacob-Baart de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh (New York: French and European Publications; Paris: Hyperion Press, 1939), 241 (ill.).
• Daniel Catton Rich, “The Kate L. Brewster Bequest,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 44 (1955): 51, 55 (ill.).
• Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 182.
• Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo (September 1966): 203.
• Jacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings (New York: Reynal, 1970), 176-77 no. F382, 626.
• Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, Vincent Van Gogh: His Paris Period 1886-1888 (Utrecht: Editions Victorine, 1976), 110, 231.

The Bedroom

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Self-Portrait

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The Poet's Garden

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A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage

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The Drinkers

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Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières)

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Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La berceuse)

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Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre

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