Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
Arles, 1888
The record dates The Yellow House to 1888, the year this catalogue assigns to Arles. It is the busiest year in the whole arc: 135 painted works carry that date, more than any of the ten years, and twenty-five of them name Arles or an Arles subject in the title.
What the record gives
The canvas measures 72 x 91.5 cm and is held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. That is within a centimetre of the size that recurs more often than any other in this catalogue: seventeen works are recorded at exactly 73 x 92 cm and nine more at 92 x 73, the same stretcher turned upright. It is one of the plainest indications in the record that the painter was working from a standard commercial format rather than choosing dimensions picture by picture.
The colour arithmetic of 1888
The measured palette here returns yellow and blue. Across the catalogue those two are the signature of the Arles year: of the 135 works dated 1888, yellow is a dominant family in 93 and blue in 26 — the highest count for blue in any year here. Brown, which dominated seven in ten works dated 1884, dominates three of the 135. Whatever else changed in Arles, the change in colour is measurable rather than asserted, and this canvas sits at the centre of it.
Sources
6 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
- The Yellow House — Wikidata
description: painting by Vincent van Gogh (F464); inception: 1888-01-01; dimensions: 72 × 91.5 cm; collection: Van Gogh Museum
- vangoghmuseum.nl — record for "The Yellow House"
Primary source record for this work (vangoghmuseum.nl).
- The Yellow House — Wikipedia
The Yellow House (Dutch: Het gele huis), alternatively named The Street (Dutch: De straat), is an 1888 oil painting by the 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. The house was the right wing of 2 Place Lamartine, Ar
- vangoghmuseum.nl — reference for "The Yellow House"
Authoritative source for this work (vangoghmuseum.nl).
- Vincent van Gogh - The yellow house ('The street') — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
