The record dates Oleanders and Books to 1888 and gives its location as a private collection. That category covers thirty-one of the 135 works dated 1888 โ the largest block of privately held works in any year of this catalogue, and more than the twenty-three of 1889 or the sixteen of 1890.
The canvas measures 60.3 by 73.6 centimetres, a horizontal. The measured palette reads as green and yellow. Oleanders are named in two titles here, both dated 1888.
Where the record ends at the word private, a chronological catalogue has to lean on what it can still count. Titles naming books or novels number seven in all: two dated 1887 and five dated 1888, and none in any other year. A still life that pairs a plant with printed matter therefore belongs to a two-year habit rather than to a lifelong one, and that is the sort of thing the arrangement is for. When the work entered private hands, and through whom, the record does not say, and no ownership history is constructed on this page.
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
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
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Oleanders and Books is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, 1888, held at Private Collection.
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