Avenue of Pollard Birches and Poplars
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)March 1884
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Vincent van Gogh seems to have been inspired to make this melancholy drawing after reading the poem “Tristement” (sadly) by the French writer François Coppee, who was known as the “poet of the humble.” The poem describes a mourning widow proceeding along “a very long lane of giant, halfdenuded plane trees.”
Time has enhanced the drawing’s autumnal mood. The iron-gall ink that Van Gogh used, once black, has altered to a dark brown and imparted a golden tone to the paper, the pen lines bleeding so that close hatchings merge and the contrast between light and dark is now muted.
- Medium
- Reed pen and iron-gall ink on tan laid paper
- Original size
- 19.2 × 26.5 cm (7 9/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
Museum record · 6 owners · 2 exhibitions
Provenance
- A.G.A. van Rappard, Utrecht.
- Mrs. Spanjaard-Keller, the Hague.
- W.B. Tholen, the Hague.
- D'Audretsch Art Gallery, the Hague, 1940.
- F.C. d'Audretsch, Wassenaar/New York.
- Mrs. M. Frank, New York, acquired 1970; by descent; sold, Christie's, New York, Nov. 15, 1989, lot 8; private collection, France; sold, Christie's, New York, Nov. 18, 1998, lot 2, to Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibitions
- Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 20, 2011.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Feb. 19–June 6, 2021 and Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.
