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Houses at Auvers
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch (worked in France), 1853–1890)
1890
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75.6 x 61.9 cm (29 3/4 x 24 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John T. Spaulding
Accession Number48.549
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
In May 1890, van Gogh moved from the south of France to Auvers, northwest of Paris, painting many of his finest pictures there in a feverish spurt of activity before his suicide in July. Houses at Auvers shows the landscape of early summer. The view from above creates a flattened tapestry of shapes in which the tiled and thatched roofs of the houses form a mesmerizing patchwork of color.
ProvenanceBy 1905, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (b. 1862 - d. 1925), Amsterdam; 1908, sold by Van Gogh-Bonger to the Moderne Kunsthandlung Franz Joseph Brakl, Munich. Probably Galerie Thannhauser, Munich. Voss collection, Berlin. 1926, Wildenstein and Co., New York; October 18, 1926, sold by Wildenstein to John Taylor Spaulding (b. 1870 - d. 1948), Boston; 1948, bequest of John Taylor Spaulding to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 3, 1948)