The Provenance Research Project
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Provenance Research Project
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The Olive Trees
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
Saint Rémy, June-July 1889. Oil on canvas, 28 5/8 x 36" (72.6 x 91.4 cm). Mrs. John Hay Whitney Bequest
Collection work meeting criteria specified in Introduction.
581.1998
Theo van Gogh (1857-1891), Paris. 1889 - 1891
Mme Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam (Theo van Gogh’s widow), Amsterdam. 1891 – 1906
Karl Ernst Osthaus (1874–1921), Hagen. Purchased from Jo van Gogh-Bonger, 1906
Galerie D. Komter, Amsterdam
Collection S. van Deventer, Director of the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands; later residing in Wassenaar, The Netherlands. By 1928 - [1940]
[German national. Purchased from Deventer, 1940]
Galerie (Nathan) Katz, Basel. By 1947
Knoedler Gallery, New York. On consignment from Katz, 1947
Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, New York. April 1947 - 1982
Mrs. John Hay Whitney (Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney), New York. 1982 - 1998
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. John Hay Whitney Bequest, 1998
Olive Trees in a Mountain Landscape, 16 June 1889
Olive Trees: Blue Sky with Large White Cloud
[Les Oliviers]
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