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Vincent van Gogh

Groot-Zundert, 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890

Roses

Date	1889
Materials and Techniques	oil on canvas
Size（cm）	33 x 41.3
Credit Line	Matsukata Collection
Standard ref.	La Faille 580; Lecaldano 498; Hulsker 1679; M514
Category	Paintings
Collection Number	P.1959-0193

Vincent van Gogh pursued an individual style with an expressionistic use of color inspired by Impressionism and Japanese ukiyo-e. Having welcomed Paul Gauguin to share his life at Arles in the South of France at the end of 1888, the artist soon began to suffer from a mental disorder. Van Gogh saw the roses of this painting blooming in the grounds of the asylum at Saint-Rémy where he was admitted the following year. The intense, undulating brushstrokes characteristic of his last works are already evident. The prolific painter took his own life in 1890. (Source: Gallery label, October 2016)

Provenance

Paul Ferdinand (père) Gachet, Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890; Paul (fils) Gachet, 1909; Paul Rosenberg, Paris; purchased from the above by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. March 1922 (Fr. 3,000) [see letter from Paul Rosenberg to Léonce Bénédite, dated 30 March 1922, in the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris (copy in NMWA curatorial file)]; sequestered by French government, 1944; vested in French government under San Francisco Peace Treaty, 1952; transferred from French to Japanese government, 23 January 1959; entered into NMWA, April 1959.

Exhibition History

1923: Peintres français des XIXe et XXe siècles, Praha, 0 1923 - 0 1923, cat. no. 191
1924: Exposition d'art français, San Francisco, 0 1924 - 0 1925, p. 22, cat. no. 65, as "Rose Bushes in the Garden of Daubigny at Auvers"
1960: Masterpieces of the Ex-Matsukata Collection, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 May 1960 - 10 July 1960, cat. no. 137
1985: Vincent Van Gogh, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 October 1985 - 8 December 1985, Nagoya-City Museum, 19 December 1985 - 2 February 1986, cat. no. 81, col. repr.
1988: Paintings by French Artists from the late 19th to early 20th Century in Japanese Collections, The State Puskin Museum, Moscow, 12 January 1988 - 10 February 1988, The State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 16 February-24 March, cat. no. 5
1989: The Old Matsukata Collection, Kobe City Museum, 14 September 1989 - 26 November 1989, cat. no. 49, col. repr.
1995: Painting: Tradition and Innovation, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History; Himeji City Museum of Art, 11 February 1995 - 12 March 1995, cat. no. 25
1996: The Crossing Visions: European and Modern Japanese Art from the Collections of The National Museum of Western Art & The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 20 July 1996 - 8 September 1996, cat. no. 93
2003: L'oro e l'azzurro, I colori del Sud da Cézanne a Bonnard, Casa dei Crraresi, 11 October 2003 - 7 March 2004, cat. no. 26, col. repr.
2007: Gods and Nature: The Essence of European Art from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Himeji City Museum of Art, 4 November 2007 - 2 December 2007, cat. no. 20
2007: Gods and Nature: The Essence of European Art from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, 11 December 2007 - 3 February 2008, cat. no. 20
2012: Van Gogh: Up Close, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1 February 2012 - 6 May 2012, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 25 May - 3 September 2012, cat. no. 2, col. repr.
2013: Monet, An Eye for Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings, Pola Museum of Art, 13 July 2013 - 24 November 2013, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 December 2013-9 March 2014, cat. no. 35, col. repr.
2017: Van Gogh and Gauguin: Reality and Imagination, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, 3 January 2017 - 20 March 2017, cat. no. 53, col. repr.
2017: Hokusai and Japonisme, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 21 October 2017 - 28 January 2018, cat. no. 129, col. repr.
2019: The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey: Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 June 2019 - 23 September 2019, cat. no. 115, col. repr.
2022: In Dialogue with Nature - from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 4 June 2022 - 11 September 2022, cat. no. 96
2024: Does the Future Sleep Here?: Revisiting the Museum's Response to Contemporary Art after 65 Years, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 March 2024 - 12 May 2024
2024: Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers, The National Gallery, London, 14 September 2024 - 19 January 2025, cat. no. 144

Bibliography

1928: La Faille, J.-B. de. L'œuvre de Vincent van Gogh, catalogue raisonné. Paris/Brussel, 1928, tome 1, p. 164, cat. no. 580, tome 2, pl. 160, no. 580.
1937: Scherjon, W.; Gruyter, J. de. Vincent van Gogh's Great Period: Arles, St. Rémy and Auvers-sur-Oise. Amsterdam, 1937, no. 29.
1955: La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), no. 48, repr.
1959: Mizue: Tokushu Matsukata Korekushon no Kaiga. no. 651, Tokyo, Bijutsu Shuppansha, July 1959 (Japanese), n. p. repr.
1960: Masterpieces of the Ex-Matsukata Collection (exh. cat.). [Tokyo], [The National Museum of Western Art], [1960], cat. no. 137
1961: Catalogue du Musée National d'Art Occidental, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1961 (Préface and Catalogue Général in Japanese and French), P-299.
1970: La Faille, J.-B. de. The works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings. Amsterdam/London, 1970, p. 241, cat. no. F. 580, repr.
1971: Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1971 (Japanese), no. 98, repr.
1971: Lecaldano, P. L'opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh. vol. 2, Milano, 1971, cat. no. 498, repr.
1975: Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1975 (Japanese), no. 55, repr.
1978: Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1978 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 61, repr.
1978: Hulsker, J. Van Gogh en zijn weg. Amsterdam, 1978, p. 387, no. 1679, repr.
1979: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 134, repr.
1985: Vincent van Gogh Exhbition (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. [Tokyo], The Tokyo Shimbun, pp. 224-227, cat. no. 81, col. repr.
1989: The Old Matsukata Collection (exh. cat.). Kobe City Museum, ed. [Kobe], "Matsukata Collection Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1989, pp. 42, 169-170, cat. no. 49, col. repr.
1990: The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 721.
1995: Painting: Tradition and Innovation (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, ed. [Himeji], Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History; Himeji City Museum of Art; Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan Bijutsukan Junkai Ten Himeji Jikkoiinkai, 1995, pp. 26, 67, 72, cat. no. 25, col. repr.
1996: Hulsker, Jan. The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches: Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Vincent van Gogh. Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, c1996, pp. 386-387, cat. no. 1679.
2003: L'oro e L'azzurro : i Colori del Sud da Cézanne a Bonnard (exh.cat.). Goldin, Marco, ed. Conegliano [Italy], Linea d'ombra Libri, 2003, pp. 114, 395, cat. no. 26, col. repr.
2006: Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2006 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 85, col. repr.
2007: Gods and Nature: The Essence of European Art from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.). Oya, Mina, ed. Tokyo, the National Museum of Western Art, 2007, pp. 31, 93, 115, cat. no. 20, col. repr.
2009: Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2009, no. 85, col. repr.
2012: Van Gogh: Up Close(exh. cat.). New Haven, Yale University Press, c2012, cat. no. 2, col. repr.
2012: Van Gogh: Up Close(exh. cat.). New Haven, Yale University Press, c2012, cat. no. 2, col. repr.
2013: MONET, An Eye For Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings(exh. cat.). Tokyo, TBS, c2013, cat. no. 35, col. repr.
2013: Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 107, col. repr.
2016: Van Gogh and Gauguin: reality and imagination (exh. cat.). Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art et al., eds. [Tokyo], Tokyo Shimbun, 2016, pp. 124-125, 190, cat. no. 53, col. repr.
2017: Hokusai and Japonisme (exh. cat.). Hakamata, Hiroyo; Ikeda, Yuko, eds. Tokyo, Yomiuri Shimbun; The National Museum of western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 174, 389, cat. no. 129, col. repr.
2018: The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 1: Paintings, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2018, cat. no. 514, col. repr.
2019: The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of the Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2019, pp. 206, 208, 368, cat. no. 115, col. repr.
2022: In Dialogue with Nature: from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi; Shinfuji, Atsushi; Yomiuri Shimbun, Museum Exhibition Department, eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2022, pp. 178, 263, cat. no. 96, col. repr.
2023: Mabuchi, Akiko; I, Yeonsik. Japoniseum. Seoul, Sigongsa, 2023, pp. 157, 243, cat. no. 134
2024: Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers (exh. cat.). Homburg, Cornelia, ed. London, National Gallery Global, 2024, pp. 195, 229, cat. no. 144, col. repr.
2024: Does the Future Sleep Here?: Revisiting the Museum's Response to Contemporary Art after 65 Years (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi; Mochizuki, Kaoru, eds. [Tokyo], Culture Convenience Club; Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 2024, pp. 116, 305, col. repr.

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