Turquoise, a rare return

The record dates Haystack under a Rainy Sky to 1890. The measured palette reads as green, yellow and turquoise. Turquoise is a dominant family in fourteen works out of 610 in this catalogue, three of them dated 1890. Three families in one measurement is itself uncommon; most entries here return one or two.

What the record gives

The canvas measures 64 by 52.5 centimetres, an upright, and it is held by the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, which holds seven of the eighty-four works dated 1890.

Stacks and weather

Five titles in this catalogue name a haystack or stacks: one dated 1883, three dated 1888 and this one. Three titles name rain, one dated 1889 and two dated 1890 — weather words are scarce in the record and they gather at the end of the decade. Green dominates fifty of the eighty-four works dated 1890 and yellow sixty-two, so the first two families in this measurement are the ordinary ones for the year and the third is not. That is all the record supports, and this page stops there.