Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
The second smallest recorded canvas here
The record dates View on the Singel in Amsterdam to 1885 and measures it at 18 by 24 centimetres. Of the 333 works in this catalogue carrying a recorded size, exactly one is smaller. That is a fact about the record rather than about the painting, and it is the sort of fact a catalogue exists to keep straight, since the ends of a size range are where copying errors surface first.
What the record gives
The location is given as a private collection. The measured palette reads as yellow and green.
Amsterdam, named once
The Singel is named in one title out of 610, and Amsterdam appears in no other title in this catalogue — which is a small irony, given that 135 of the works here are now held in that city. The last year of the Nuenen period is also the year the titles begin to name cities rather than fields: Antwerp arrives in two titles dated 1885, and by 1886 the place-names are Parisian. Green, measured on this surface, dominates twelve of the works dated 1885 and sixty-five of those dated 1888. The record gives the street and the year; what stood on it is not described here.
Sources
1 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
