Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Property from an International Private Collection
Auction Closed
October 29, 01:50 AM GMT
Estimate
14,000,000 - 18,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an International Private Collection
VINCENT VAN GOGH
1853 - 1890
FLEURS DANS UN VERRE
Oil on canvas
16¼ by 13⅛ in.
41.3 by 33.3 cm
Painted in 1890.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Le Peau de l’Ours, Paris (acquired from the above in 1908 and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Association ‘Peau de l’Ours’, March 2, 1914, lot 29)
Galerie E. Druet, Paris
Denys Cochin, Paris (acquired in 1914)
(probably) Elisabeth de la Tour d’Auvergne (née Elisabeth Bertier de Wagram), Paris
Knoedler & Co., London & Alex. Reid & Lefevre, London (acquired from the above in 1929)
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre), London (acquired in full from M. Knoedler & Co. in October 1929)
Mrs. Barbara Harrison Wescott, Rambouillet (acquired from the above on August 16, 1929)
Alfred Lindon (formerly Lindenbaum), Paris
Seized from the above by the ERR, July 12, 1941 and taken to the ERR depot at the Jeu de Paume, Paris
Transferred to Walter Andres Hofer from Neu Schwanstein depot, July 12, 1941
Exchanged by Hermann Goering with the Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, October 20, 1942
Recovered by the Monuments Men from the Galerie Fischer Lucerne 1946
Restituted to Jacques Lindon, New York (the heir of Alfred Lindon)
Sylvester Welch Labrot, Jr., Hobe Sound, Florida
Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (on consignment from the estate of the above by June 1962)
The Reader’s Digest Collection (Lila Acheson Wallace), Pleasantville (acquired from the above on August 23, 1963 and sold: Sotheby’s, New York, May 13, 1998, lot 9)
Private Collection, United States (and sold: Sotheby’s, New York, May 10, 2000, lot 21)
Acquired at the above sale
Jacob-Baart de la Faille, L’Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Paris, 1928, no. 589, catalogued p. 166; vol. II, no. 589, illustrated pl. CLXII
Willem Scherjon & Jos de Gruyter, Vincent van Gogh’s Great Period: Arles, St. Rémy and Auvers-sur-Oise, Amsterdam, 1937, no. 189, illustrated p. 195
Jacob-Baart de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh, Paris, 1939, no. F. 589, illustrated pl. 601 (dated 1888)
Jacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings, London, 1970, no. 589, illustrated p. 308
Paolo Lecaldano, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Van Gogh, vol. II, Paris, 1971, no. 829, illustrated p. 228
Jacques Lassaigne, Vincent van Gogh, Milan, 1974, illustrated p. 82
Jan Hulsker, The Complete Van Gogh. Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, New York, 1980, no. 2033, illustrated p. 466
Alain Mothe, Vincent van Gogh à Auvers-sur-Oise, Paris, 1987, illustrated in color p. 174
Ingo Walther & Rainer Metzger, Vincent Van Gogh. The Complete Paintings, vol. II, Cologne, 1990, illustrated p. 660
Giovanni Testori & Luisa Arrigoni, Van Gogh Catalogo Completo, Florence, 1990, no. 820, illustrated p. 377
Paul Gachet, Les 70 jours de van Gogh à Auvers, Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône, 1994, illustrated in color p. XXIV
Jan Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh. Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 1996, no. 2033, illustrated p. 466
Ingo F. Walther & Rainer Metzger, Vincent Van Gogh. The Complete Paintings, Cologne, 2001, illustrated in color p. 660 (titled Still Life: Glass with Wild Flowers)
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Vincent van Gogh. The Years in France, Complete Paintings 1886-1890, London, 2013, illustrated in color p. 250
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Contrasts and Affinities, 1939, no. 23
Tokyo, Palaceside Building, Forty Paintings from the Reader’s Digest Collection, 1966
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc. (& traveling), Selections from the Reader’s Digest Collection, 1985-86
Auckland, Auckland City Art Gallery, The Reader’s Digest Collection. Manet to Picasso, 1989
Portland, Portland Art Museum (on loan 1998)