{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VisualArtwork","@id":"https://vincentvangoghpaintings.com/artworks/vincent-van-gogh/still-life-with-apples-pears-lemons-and-grapes","name":"Still Life with Apples, Pears, Lemons and Grapes","url":"https://vincentvangoghpaintings.com/artworks/vincent-van-gogh/still-life-with-apples-pears-lemons-and-grapes","image":"/img/art/31420/2048.webp","creator":{"@type":"Person","name":"Vincent van Gogh"},"dateCreated":"1887","locationCreated":"Dutch","contentLocation":"Art Institute of Chicago","height":null,"width":null,"artform":"Neo-Impressionism","temporalCoverage":"19th Century","about":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Still Life"},{"@type":"Thing","name":"Fruit"},{"@type":"Thing","name":"Photography"}],"description":"Still Life with Apples, Pears, Lemons and Grapes is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, 1887, held at Art Institute of Chicago.","artMedium":"Oil on canvas","artwiki":{"masterId":"#31420","permalink":"still-life-with-apples-pears-lemons-and-grapes-vincent-van-gogh","slug":"still-life-with-apples-pears-lemons-and-grapes-vincent-van-gogh","categoriesRaw":"Subject Matter>Still Life|Subject Matter>Still Life>Fruit|Subject Matter>Photography|Style>Neo-Impressionism|Style>Post-Impressionism|Artist>Vincent van Gogh|Periods>19th Century|Nationality>Dutch","tagsRaw":"Still Life,Fruit,Photography,Neo-Impressionism,Post-Impressionism,Vincent van Gogh,19th Century,Dutch","catalogueVerified":{"medium":{"value":"Oil on canvas","source":"https://www.artic.edu/artworks/64957"},"location":{"value":"Art Institute of Chicago","source":"https://www.artic.edu/artworks/64957","evidence":"backfill: valor verificado = wiki_museums.name","museum_id":1}},"enrichment":{"artist":{"birth":"1853","death":"1890","ulan_bio":"Dutch painter and draftsman, 1853-1890","ulan_url":"http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500115588","wikidata":"Q5582"},"medium":"Oil on canvas","museum":"Art Institute of Chicago","gallery":"Gallery 241","on_view":true,"department":"Painting and Sculpture of Europe","museum_url":"https://www.artic.edu/artworks/64957","provenance":"The artist’s brother, Theo van Gogh (died 1891), Paris; either by descent to his brother-in-law, Andres Bonger, or to Julien Tanquy [this and the following according to Stolwijk and Veenenbos, 2002, 25]. Émile Bernard, Paris, around March 1894; sold to Ambroise Vollard, Paris, Aug. 14, 1894 [Fonds Archives, MS 421 (4,3) fol. 4, August 14, 1894, Musée d’Orsay, Paris; New York 2006]; sold to Edgar Degas (died 1917), Paris, possibly Oct. 1895 [Degas inventory no. 173; New York 1997 and New York 2006]; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Mar. 25-26, 1918, lot 29 [sale catalogue in curatorial object file]; sold to Paul Rosenberg, Paris, for 16,500 francs [this and the following according to  New York 2006]. Henry-Jean Laroche, Paris, by 1928. Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago, by 1928 [Chicago 1933 and label on the reverse]. Walter S. Brewster (died 1954) and Kate L. Brewster (1947), Chicago, by 1929 [Chicago 1929]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1949.","credit_line":"Gift of Kate L. Brewster","exhibitions":"Munich, Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Nachtragswerk III zur grossen Katalogausgabe (1916), 1918, cat. 115.\n\nArts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibitions of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, Jan. 4-18, 1929, cat. 18.\n\nCambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Mar. 6-Apr. 6,1929, cat. 94.\n\nNew York, Museum of Modern Art, First Loan Exhibition, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, Nov. 7–Dec. 7, 1929, cat. 94.\n\nChicago, Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Special View for the Benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society, Jan. 20-22, 1933, cat. 30.\n\nNorthampton, MA, Single Picture Exhibition, Summer 1935.\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Gogh, Paintings and Drawings, Oct. 21, 1949-Jan. 15, 1950, cat. 55; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1-Apr. 16, 1950.\n\nKansas City, MO, Nelson-Atkins Gallery, Tracing the History of Modern Painting, Jan. 19, 1961–Feb. 28, 1961.\n\nAlbi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27-Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 44.\n\nTokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 18-Dec. 17, 1986, cat. 41; Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5-Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4-Apr. 13, 1986.\n\nLeningrad [now Saint Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago, Mar. 15-May 19, 1988, not included in cat.; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988. [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago]\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Tour de France: Paintings, Photographs, Prints, and Drawings from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 9, 1989-Mar. 4, 1990, no cat.\n\nLondon, National Gallery, Degas as a Collector, May 22-Aug. 26, 1996, cat. 25.\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, Oct. 1, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998, cat. 595. \n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cézanne to Picasso Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, Sep. 13, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007, cat. 114; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 17-May 13, 2007; Paris, Musée d’Orsay, June 18-Sep. 16, 2007. \n\nFort Worth, TX, Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 56.\n\nPhiladelphia Museum of Art, Van Gogh: Up Close, Jan. 1-May 6, 2012, cat. 143; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, May 25-Sep. 2, 2012.\n\nDenver Art Museum, Van Gogh's Awakening: Antwerp, Paris, Arles, Oct. 20, 2012-Jan. 20, 2013.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, Feb. 14 - May 10, 2016, no cat. no., plate 10.\n\nPotsdam, Germany, Museum Barberini, Van Gogh: Still Lifes, Oct. 26, 2019 - Feb. 2, 2020.\n\nDetroit Institute of Art, Van Gogh and America, Oct. 2, 2022 - Jan. 22, 2023, cat. 26.","image_hires":"https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/f11bd233-6cc3-4221-59eb-f7363be4119e/full/1686,/0/default.jpg"},"sources":[{"kind":"artist-bio","title":"Vincent van Gogh — Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh"},{"kind":"getty-ulan","title":"Gogh, Vincent van — Getty ULAN","url":"http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500115588"},{"kind":"museum-aic","title":"Grapes, Lemons, Pears, and Apples — Art Institute of Chicago (id 64957)","url":"https://www.artic.edu/artworks/64957"}],"verifiedAt":"2026-08-25T21:03:42.696+00:00"}}