Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
Among the smallest recorded canvases
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.
What the record gives
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.
Branches, and the shape of the last year
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 — 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.
Sources
5 references- Vincent van Gogh — Wikipedia
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ vɑŋ ˈɣɔx] ; 30 March 1853 – 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
- Blossoming Acacia Branches — Wikidata
description: painting by Vincent van Gogh; inception: 1890-06; dimensions: 33 × 24 cm; collection: Nationalmuseum
- collection.nationalmuseum.se — record for "Blossoming Acacia Branches"
Primary source record for this work (collection.nationalmuseum.se).
- europeana.eu — record for "Blossoming Acacia Branches"
Primary source record for this work (europeana.eu).
- Acacia in Flowers (Vincent van Gogh) - Nationalmuseum - 22989 — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
