The record dates Blossoming Acacia Branches to 1890 and measures it at 24 by 32.5 centimetres. Of the 333 works in this catalogue with a recorded size, only six are smaller. Sizes are copied from the holding institutions, so an entry near the bottom of the range is chiefly a statement about the record's own consistency.
The work is held by the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, which holds one entry in this catalogue. The measured palette reads as yellow, a single dominant family. Acacias are named in one title here.
Titles naming branches number five in this catalogue: two dated 1888 and three dated 1890, with none in the years between. Blossom in general accounts for nineteen titles, four of them dated 1890. The Auvers year, which closes the chronology, returns to a subject the Arles year had used and then dropped โ the catalogue can date the return precisely because both ends are counted. Yellow, the reading measured here, dominates sixty-two of the eighty-four works dated 1890.
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [หvษชnsษnt หสษชlษษฑ vษล หษฃษx] ; 30 March 1853 โ 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he c
Dutch art dealer, 1866-1911
description: painting by Vincent van Gogh; inception: 1890-06; dimensions: 33 ร 24 cm; collection: Nationalmuseum
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Blossoming Acacia Branches is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, 1890, held at Nationalmuseum.
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