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On Display

Permanent collection

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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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