Vincent van Gogh Portrait of Joseph Roulin Arles, early 1889

On view

MoMA, Floor 5, 504 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Galleries

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 3/8 x 21 3/4" (64.4 x 55.2 cm)
Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rosenberg, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Mr. and Mrs. Armand P. Bartos, The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection, Mr. and Mrs. Werner E. Josten, and Loula D. Lasker Bequest (all by exchange)
Object number: 196.1989
Department: Painting and Sculpture

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1889, Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France.
April 1889 - January 1891, Theo van Gogh (1857-1891), Paris, acquired from his brother Vincent van Gogh.
January 1891 - December 1923, Johanna (Jo) van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam, in trust for her son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Amsterdam, inherited from Theo van Gogh.
December 1923/January 9, 1924 - February 1924, Tate Gallery (National Gallery, Modern Foreign Section), purchased through Jo van Gogh-Bonger and Leicester Galleries, London.
February 1924 - February 21, 1924, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam, reacquired by exchange from Tate Gallery.
February 21, 1924 - March 30, 1926, Galerie Thannhauser (Siegfried Rosengart), Lucerne, purchased through Jo van Gogh-Bonger and Leicester Galleries, London.
March 30, 1926 - 1946, Bernhard Mayer, Zürich/Ascona and New York, purchased from Galerie Thannhauser.
1946, Heirs of Bernhard Mayer
1989, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired from the above through Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zürich.

For further reading: Die Sammlung Bernhard Mayer. Exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich 1998 (exhibition catalogue).

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