Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
An entry whose location field reads Destroyed
The record dates Windmill on Montmartre to 1886 and gives its location as destroyed. Five works in this catalogue carry that value: this one and four dated 1888. It is the hardest fact a catalogue record can hold, and the reason to keep the entry rather than drop it — a catalogue of a decade's output that silently omitted the works that no longer exist would misreport the decade.
What the record gives
No dimensions are recorded. The measured palette reads as green, blue and yellow — three families, which is unusual: the reading is taken from the catalogue image this record carries, and it is the only description of colour this page offers.
Montmartre and the mills
Ten titles in this catalogue name Montmartre, eight of them dated 1886 and two dated 1887, all inside the Paris period. Six further titles name the Moulin de la Galette, five of them dated 1886 and one dated 1887. Repeated motifs inside one period, kept as separate records rather than collapsed into one entry, are the point of a catalogue; that one of them is now known only from a photograph is a fact about the record, and nothing further is claimed about how it came to be lost.
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
