Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre by Vincent van Gogh
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Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre

Vincent van Gogh · Early 1887

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist’s sister in law, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (died 1925), Amsterdam [this and the following according to Van Gogh-Bonger’s account book: "101/17 1/1924 'landschapje op Montmartre/lantaarn' 2500 [guilders] reproduced in Stolwijk and Veenenbos 2002, 136, 165]; sold to Mrs. Elizabeth Carstairs (née Stebbins, died 1949), London, Dec. 1923 for 2,500 guilders; sold through Ernest Brown and Philips (Leicester Galleries), London to M. Knoedler Art Gallery, Paris, Jan. 1924 for £300 [this and the following according to Knoedler Stock Book, no. 15822, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]; sold to Frederic Clay Bartlett (died 1953) and Helen Birch Bartlett (died 1925), New York, Aug. 1924, for £400; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Possibly Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Tentoonstelling van schilderijen en teekeningen door Vincent van Gogh, July 15 - Sep. 1, 1905, cat. 40. [This entry simply reads “Montmartre” and could possibly be another work.]
  • London, Ernest Brown & Philips, The Leicester Galleries, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Dec. 1923, cat 18.
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1925.
  • Boston Arts Club, 1926.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 380.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934 , cat. 313.
  • New York, Wildenstein Gallery, The Art and Life of Vincent van Gogh: Loan Exhibition in Aid of American and Dutch War Relief, Oct. 6–Nov. 17, 1943.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Sep. 1948.
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh paintings and drawings. A special loan exhibition, Oct. 15, 1949–Jan. 15, 1950, cat. 46; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1-Apr. 16, 1950.
  • Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Vincent van Gogh, Feb. 4–25, 1951, cat. 3.
  • Andover, MA, Addison Gallery of Art, Variations, Three Centuries of Painting, Jan. 8–Feb. 15, 1954.
  • Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Vincent Van Gogh à Paris, Feb. 2–May 2, 1988, cat. 20.

Literature

Published references

  • Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1926), 8, pl. 9.
  • Jacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings (New York: Reynal, 1970), 136-37 (ill.), no. F272.
  • Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, et. al., The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 119 (ill.), no. 54.
  • James H. Rubin, “Das Impressionistische Stadtbild als Emblem der Moderne,” in Bilder einer Metropole: Die Impressionisten in Paris, exh. cat. (Essen: Museum Folkwang; Göttingen: Steidl, 2010), 79-80, 81.
  • Gloria Groom, ed., Van Gogh's Bedrooms, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2016), 8, plate 4.
  • Martin Bailey, "Bought for around $1,000, now worth $10m: where was the newly unveiled Van Gogh landscape hidden away?" The Art Newspaper, February 26, 2021. Jill Shaw, ed., Van Gogh in America, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022), 25, 53-54, 82, 148, 227n67, 228n131, 228n141, 233 cat. 21.

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