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Book Review
Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 808–809
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Homburg , Cornelia (Homburg , Cornelia)
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Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous By Hans Luijten, translated by Lynne Richards. 544 pp. incl. 63 col. + 67 b. & w. ills. (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London, 2023), £20. ISBN 978–1–350–29958–0. | :
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5. Jo van Gogh-Bonger in the living room at 77 Koninginneweg in Amsterdam. 1909 or later. On the wall behind the desk are Henri Fantin-Latour’s Flowers (1877) and Vincent van Gogh’s Vase of honesty (1884) and Landscape at twilight (1890). (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).
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The Art of Conservation: XVII: Jan Cornelis Traas, paintings restorer of the Van Gogh family collection
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 164-177
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Hendriks, Ella (Hendriks, Ella)
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1. Jan Cornelis Traas at work on Girl with a pearl earring, by Johannes Vermeer, in the Mauritshuis, The Hague. 1960. Photograph. (Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague).
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10. Photograph of Fig.9 recording its damaged condition prior to the 1927 restoration by Traas. (Photograph Bernard F. Eilers; from W. Scherjon and W. Jos de Gruyter: Vincent van Gogh’s great period. Arles, St. Rémy and Auvers sur Oise, Amsterdam 1937).
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11. The bedroom at Arles, by Vincent van Gogh. 1888. Oil on canvas, 72.4 by 91.3 cm. Photographed after the 2009–10 treatment when Traas’s old varnish and retouches were removed. The originally pale violet walls and lilac doors described by the artist are now light blue, owing to the fading of a red cochineal lake in the paint mixture used. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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12. Digital visualisation providing an impression of the original colours of Fig.11. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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13. Vishwa R. Mehra making a condition report on the Van Gogh collection. 1984. Photograph. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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14. Self-portrait with grey felt hat, by Vincent van Gogh. 1887. Oil on canvas, 44.5 by 37.2 cm. Shown after it was vandalised in 1978. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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2. Willem J. Steenhoff in the Van Gogh Gallery of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, with The potato eaters (F82) in the background. 1918. Photograph. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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3. Living room of Jo van Gogh-Bonger’s house in Brachthuyzerstraat, Amsterdam, showing from left to right: The white orchard (F403); The pink peach tree (F404); and The pink orchard (F555). c.1917. Photograph Thijs Quispel. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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4. Diagram of the Dutch method of wax-resin lining; in this case the original and lining canvases are enlarged with paper strips adhered to the edges, rather than the canvas strips sewn on by Traas, enabling the canvases to be stretched on wooden looms during lining. (From S. Cursiter and A.M. de Wild: ‘Picture relining’, in Technical Studies in the Field of Fine Arts 5 (1937)).
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5. Relining of Van Gogh’s Railway bridge over Avenue Montmajour, Arles (F480; whereabouts unknown), showing the preparation of the sawdust bed on which the painting is laid face downwards for lining without a hot table, by ironing, using ‘an elaborate insulation with tin foil and a sawdust bedding’ to protect the high impasto. Photograph, taken probably in Helmut Ruhemann’s studio in Berlin c.1932. (From Manual on the Conservation and Restoration of Paintings, Paris 1940).
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6. Field with irises near Arles, by Vincent van Gogh. May 1888. Oil on canvas, 54 by 65 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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7. Fig.6 photographed in raking light after the removal of the varnish in 2014–15.
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8. Enlarged detail of Fig.6, showing canvas weave impressed in the flattened impasto from rolling and sending the painting to Theo van Gogh.
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9. An old woman of Arles, by Vincent van Gogh. 1888. Oil on canvas, 58 by 42 cm., showing the corners filled with putty and an even tone. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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Herkomer’s ‘Drawing and engraving on wood’ and Van Gogh
07/2020 | 1408 | 162
Pages: 584-591
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Alessi, Vincent (Alessi, Vincent)
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1. Sunday at Chelsea Hospital, by Hubert von Herkomer. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (Published in the Graphic, 18th February 1871; Bridgeman Images).
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2. A gipsy encampment on Putney Common, by Hubert von Herkomer. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (Published in the Graphic, 18th June 1870; Bridgeman Images).
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3. The East London Hospital for Children, by Matthew White Ridley. Engraved by Joseph Swain. Wood engraving. (Published in the Illustrated London News, 27th April 1872; Bridgeman Images).
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4. Miner, by Matthew White Ridley. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (Published in The Graphic, 15th April 1876; Bridgeman Images).
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5. Old man with a stick, by Vincent van Gogh. 1882. Lithograph, 48.1 by 25.2 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Van Gogh Foundation).
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6. At eternity’s gate, by Vincent van Gogh. 1882. Lithograph, 50 by 34 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Van Gogh Foundation).
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7. Sorrow, by Vincent van Gogh. 1882. Lithograph, 38.9 by 29.2 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Van Gogh Foundation; Bridgeman Images).
Exhibition Review
Van Gogh and Japan. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
06/2018 | 1383 | 160
Pages: 490-492
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Adler, Kathleen (Adler, Kathleen)
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1. Undergrowth with two figures, by Vincent van Gogh. 1890. Canvas, 49.5 by 99.7 cm. (Cincinnati Art Museum; exh. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).
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2. Bridge in the rain (after Hiroshige), by Vincent van Gogh. 1887. Canvas, 73.3 by 53.8 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).
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3. Courtesan (after Eisen), by Vincent van Gogh. 1887. Canvas, 100.7 by 60.7 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).
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4. Self-portrait, by Vincent van Gogh. 1888. Canvas, 61.5 by 50.3 cm. (Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge MA; exh. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).
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‘Sunset at Montmajour’: a newly discovered painting by Vincent van Gogh
10/2013 | 1327 | 155
Pages: 696-705
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Meedendorp, Teio (Meedendorp, Teio)
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Tilborgh, Louis van (Tilborgh, Louis van)
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van Maanen, Oda (van Maanen, Oda)
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55. La Bruyère, by Vincent van Gogh (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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56. Sunset at Montmajour, by Vincent van Gogh (Private collection)
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58. Under the pines: evening, by Claude Monet (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
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59. Tree on a rock at Ganagobie, by Adolphe Monticelli (Tanimoto Hiroaki Collection, Japan)
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60. The rocks, by Vincent van Gogh (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Audrey Jones Beck)
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61. The public garden ('The poet's garden'), by Vincent van Gogh (Art Institute of Chicago, Mr and Mrs Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection)
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62. Photomicrograph of Fig. 56 showing the lay-in of the composition with diluted washes of green paint
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63. Photomicrograph of Fig. 56 showing the wet-in-wet mixing of the green paint with the paint of the sky and final touches of green added onto the touch-dry paint
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64. Photomicrograph of Fig. 60 showing similar wet-in-wet mixing of the green paint with the paint of teh sky and final touches of green added onto the touch-dry paint. (Photograph Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
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65. Photomicrograph of Fig. 56 showing the discolouration of the red lake paint in an abraded area
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66. Photomicrograph of Fig. 56 showing the discolouration of the chrome yellow paint, where part of the impasto has broken off, slightly enhanced by the absence of varnish
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67. Reverse of Fig. 56 showing the number '180' from the Bonger list inscribed on the canvas
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68. Detail in transmitted light of the number '100' from the Bonger list inscribed on the reverse of Sunset: wheatfield near Arles, by Vincent van Gogh (Kunstmuseum, Winterthur)
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71. View of Arles from Montmajour, by Vincent van Gogh (Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo)
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72. Path to the beach, by Vincent van Gogh. Sketch in his letter no. 369 to Theo van Gogh, 29th and 30th July 1883. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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73. The bush, by Jacob van Ruisdael (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
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74. Olive trees, by Vincent van Gogh (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai)
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54. Holm oaks near Aureille, just south of the Alpilles (Photograph 2013)
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57. Detail from the Carte de l'état-major de France 1820-66 (Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN), France)
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69. Christian Nicolai Mustad's house, Oslo. Photograph. 1960s. (Private collection)
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70. Christian Nicolai Mustad's house. Oslo. Photograph 1960s. (Private collection)
Article
The life and death of Vincent van Gogh
07/2013 | 1324 | 155
Pages: 456-462
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Meedendorp, Teio (Meedendorp, Teio)
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Tilborgh, Louis van (Tilborgh, Louis van)
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10. Tree roots, by Vincent van Gogh (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - Van Gogh Foundation)
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8. Auvers, the area where Vincent committed suicide ('De l'endroit où Vincent s'est suicidé'), by Louis van Ryssel (Paul Gachet Jr.) (Musée Tavet-Delacour, Pontoise [Musée Camille Pissarro])
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9. Wheatfield with crows, by Vincent van Gogh (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - Van Gogh Foundation)
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7. René Secrétan. 1854. Photograph reproduced in V. Doiteau: 'Deux "copains" de Van Gogh, inconnus, les frères Gaston et René Secrétan, Vincent, tel qu'ils l'ont vu', Aesculape (March 1957), p.41
Exhibition Review
Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum
09/1999 | 1158 | 141
Pages: 567-569
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Thomson, Belinda (Thomson, Belinda)
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62. New Exhibition Wing at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Architect Kisho Kurokawa. 1999.
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63. A bashi-bazouk, by Charles Bargue. c.1875. 47.6 by 33.3 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Exh. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).
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64. Branches of an Almond Tree in Blossom, by Vincent van Gogh. 1890. 73.5 by 92 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).
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65. Antibes in the Morning, by Claude Monet. 1888. 65 by 81 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art; Exh. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).
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66.? Portrait of Theo Van Gogh, by Vincent van Gogh. 1887. Oil on Cardboard, 19 by 14 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).
Book Review
Vincent and Theo: A Dual Biography
06/1992 | 1071 | 134
Pages: 391-392
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Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila (Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila; Ovcharov, Bogomila Welsh; Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila M.)
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Vincent and Theo: A Dual Biography | author: Hulsker, Jan
Book Review
Paul Gauguin: 45 Lettres a Vincent, Theo et Jo van Gogh
02/1984 | 971 | 126
Pages: 96-97
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Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila (Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila; Ovcharov, Bogomila Welsh; Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila M.)
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Paul Gauguin: 45 Lettres a Vincent, Theo et Jo van Gogh | author: Cooper, Douglas , author: Gauguin, Paul
Exhibition Review
Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Amsterdam
01/1979 | 910 | 121
Pages: 61+63
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Schrijver, Elka (Schrijver, Elka)
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78. Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Pastel, 54 by 45 cm. (Collection Theo van Gogh; Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh).
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