About the Artwork
Vase with Carnations
1886
Vincent van Gogh
1853-1890
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 18 1/4 × 15 1/8 inches (46.3 × 38.4 cm) Framed: 24 1/2 × 21 1/4 × 1 1/2 inches (62.2 × 54 × 3.8 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Bequest of Catherine Kresge Dewey
2019.20
Public Domain
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Provenance
(J.P. Schneider, Frankfurt am Main, Germany), by 1909; bought by Albert Ullmann [1862-1912] and Hedwig Ullmann [born Nathan, later Ullin] [1872-1945] (Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Melbourne, Australia), 1909; transferred by Hedwig Ullmann to Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, as a deposit, August 25, 1931; per Hedwig Ullmann's instructions, shipped by Kunsthalle Basel to (Emil Hirsch, New York, New York, USA), March 10, 1939. William [1903-1969] and Edith [1905-1988] Goetz (Los Angeles, California, USA), prior to or in 1947; bought by (Wildenstein & Co., New York, New York, USA), 1947; bought by Catherine Kresge [Mrs. Charles B. Murphy, later Catherine Kresge Dewey] [1908-1990] (Detroit, Michigan, and East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York, USA), 1950; bequeathed to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA), 1990For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Dorn, R. and W. Feilchenfeldt. "Genuine or fake? On the history and problems of Van Gogh connoisseurship," The Mythology of Vincent van Gogh, ed. Kodera Tsukasa, Eng. ed. Y. Rosenberg. Tokyo/ Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Asahi National Broadcasting Co. Ltd. and John Benjamins B.V., 1993, p. 280, (fig. 167a) [obverse in color], (fig. 167b) [reverse].
Bailey, M. "Van Gogh the Fakes Debate," Apollo (January 2005): pp. 55-63, esp. p. 59, no. 17, (repr.).
Van Gogh: Still Lifes. Exh. cat., Museum Barberini. Potsdam, 2019, pp. 152-154, cat. 10 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Vincent van Gogh, Vase with Carnations, 1886, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Catherine Kresge Dewey, 2019.20.
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