Groot-Zundert 1853 – 1890 Auvers-sur-Oise
„Head of a Peasant Woman: Right Profile“ („Kopf einer Bäuerin: Profil nach rechts“).
Provenance
Vincent van Gogh (left with the family in Nuenen) / Anna Cornelia van Gogh-Carbentus, sister of the artist, Nuenen/Breda (1885-86) / Adrianus ("Janus“) Schrauwen, Breda (1886-1902) / Jan C. Couvreur, Breda (1902) / W. Van Bakel and Cornelius Hendrikus Wilhelmus ("Kees“) Mouwen jr., Breda (1902-03) / Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Rotterdam (1903) / Gerlacus ("Gerlach“) Ribbius Peletier jr., Utrecht (acquired at Oldenzeel in the February of 1903, until 1930) / Adriana Louisa Ribbius Peletier-Wijbelingh, wife of the previous owner, Utrecht (acquired by descent 1930, until 1939) / Louise J. Schokking-Ribbius Peletier, daughter the previous owner, Doorn (acquired by descent 1939, until approx. 1959) / Galerie E. J. Van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam (acquired approx. 1959) / Olive Hosmer, Montreal (acquired [before] 1960) / John H. Shuter, nephew the previous owner, Beaconsfield, Québec/Montreal (acquired after 1970) / Galerie Nathan, Zurich / private collection, southern Germany/Great Britain (acquired at Nathan in 1984)
Addendum/Erratum
With a confirmation by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, dated May 11 2015. Additional exhibition: Deutsche und französische Meisterwerke. Düsseldorf, Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, 1981, Abb. S. 2. Additional literature: Weltkunst. Aktuelle journal for Kunst and Antiquitäten. vol. 52, no. 3, Munich, 1.2.1982, p. 223, with illustration
EUR 600,000
- 800,000
USD 647,000
- 862,000
Sold for:
745,000 EUR (incl. premium)
Auctions 237-246
Van Gogh to Twombly. Selected Works, 4 June 2015
Exhibition
Vincent van Gogh. Rotterdam, Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, 1903, no. 4 / Canada collects. European Painting 1860–1960. Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, 1960, cat. no. 153, ill. p. 51
Literature and illustration
J(acob)-B(aart) de la Faille: L’Œuvre de Vincent van Gogh. Catalogue raisonné. 4 vols. Paris/Brüssel, Les Éditions G. van Oest, 1928, here vol. 1: cat. no. 144, vol. 2: ill. pl. XL („Paysanne brabançonne“, canvas on wood) / Walther Jan Clemens Vanbeselaere: De Hollandsche periode (1880–1885) in het werk van Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). Antwerpen, De Sikkel, 1937 (= Diss. 1934), p. 290, no. 144 (canvas on wood), p. 341f. / J(acob)-B(aart) de la Faille: Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Hyperion, 1939, cat. no. 154, with ill. („Bäuerin aus Brabant“, oil on wood) / Jan Hulsker: Van Gogh en zijn weg. Het complete werk. Amsterdam, Meulenhoff International, 1978, cat. no. 561, with ill. („Boerenvrouw, kop“, canvas on wood) / Ingo F. Walther/Rainer Metzger: Vincent van Gogh. Sämtliche Gemälde, vol. 1: Etten, April 1881 – Paris, Februar 1888. Cologne, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1989, ill. p. 68 („Kopf einer Bäuerin mit weißer Haube“) / Louis van Tilborgh und Marije Vellekoop: Van Gogh in Utrecht. The Collection of Gerlach Ribbius Peletier (1856–1930). In: Van Gogh Museum Journal 1997-1998, p. 26-41, here p. 28, ill. 2 (photo of the living room of the Ribbius Peletier family in Utrecht, 1903-04, our painting left on an easel), p. 30, p. 33, ill. 6 (paintings in the living room of the Ribbius Peletier family in Utrecht by Elsie Spronck, 1932, our painting back right over the door), p. 34 and p. 36, no. 2, with ill. („Head of a woman“, oil on canvas on wood) / Martha Op de Coul: In search of Van Gogh’s Nuenen studio: the Oldenzeel exhibitions of 1903. In: Van Gogh Museum Journal 2002, p. 113, no. 4