{"data":{"id":109314,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/109314","is_boosted":false,"title":"Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asni\u00e8res)","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBgAFAPQAAHR6Xnp9W2p2YG92ZGR5a3V7YXB7bmJ8dmh5cnyBTnmFY3SCaHWCaXKBbnSDcXKHeHyHe4GHZI2TZ4COeoOTfIaVf3GDgn6PgneQiZObiJCgi5qgjJmvoaa2qgAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAGAAUAAAUY4ERpXLctC5RJieFgVxUNzUE8SlBYiACEADs=","width":10057,"height":8391,"alt_text":"Painting in short strokes of pale blue, green, white, yellow, and pink, of a fisherman in one of two small boats on a river, a tree-lined bank and a bridge in the background."},"main_reference_number":"1965.1169","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1887,"date_end":1887,"date_display":"1887","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853\u20131890)","place_of_origin":"Netherlands","description":"<p>The setting of this work is the river Seine at the Clichy Bridge near Asni\u00e8res, a suburb north of Paris where Vincent van Gogh painted on several occasions with his friend and fellow artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/36695\">Paul Signac<\/a>. Van Gogh was inspired by Signac and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/40810\">Georges Seurat<\/a>, both of whose work is on view nearby. Their technique, called divisionism, used science-based theories of color, which they applied in individual strokes to maximize luminosity. Although Van Gogh was only in Paris working among these artists for about two years, their influence can be seen here in his use of small brushstrokes of pure, brilliant color that combine to create the effect of light reflecting off the various surfaces represented in the composition.<\/p>\n","short_description":"This painting is set on the river Seine at the Clichy Bridge near Asni\u00e8res, a suburb north of Paris where Van Gogh painted on several occasions with his friend and fellow artist Paul Signac. Van Gogh was inspired by a technique Signac innovated called divisionism, in which, using science-based color theory, he painted distinct strokes of different colors of paint next to each other to make each color more luminous.","dimensions":"50.5 \u00d7 60 cm (19 7\/8 \u00d7 23 5\/8 in.); Framed: 71.2 \u00d7 78.5 \u00d7 4.8 cm (28 \u00d7 30 7\/8 \u00d7 1 7\/8 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":60,"height":50,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":4,"width":78,"height":71,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and Roger McCormick","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"J[acob]-B[aart] de la Faille, L'\u0153uvre de Vincent van Gogh, Catalogue raisonn\u00e9 vol. 1-2 (Paris: G. Van Oest, 1928), no. 354, pl. 47.\n\nRene Huyghe, \u201cVincent van Gogh: Sa vie et son oeuvre,\u201d L\u2019Amour de L\u2019Art 18 (1937): 11, 31 (ill.). \n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cGreat Chicago Collectors,\u201d Apollo 84 (September 1966): 206.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1965-1966 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1966): 5, 9, 27 (ill.).\n\nMark Roskill, Van Gogh, Gauguin and the Impressionist Circle (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1970), 45, pl. 22.\n\nJacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings (New York: Reynal, 1970), 166-67, 182 (color ill.), F354.\n\nBogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, Vincent Van Gogh: His Paris Period 1886-1888 (Utrecht: Editions Victorine, 1976), 95, 233, 296 (ill.).\n\nPaolo Lecaldano, L\u2019opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh e i suoi nessi grafici: Da Etten a Parigi  vol. 1 (Milan, 1977), 115 (ill.), no. 382..\n\nJan Hulsker, The complete Van Gogh: Paintings, drawings, sketches (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1980, 280, no. 1270.\n\nHerbert Henkels, \u201cC\u00e9zanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: de collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866-1911),\u201d Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41, no. 3-4 (1993): 228, pl. 101.\n\nChris Stolwijk and Han Veenenbos, The Account Book of Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger (Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum; Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2002), 143.\n\nGloria Groom and Douglas Druick, eds., The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008), 120 (ill), cat. 55.\n\nLouis van Tilborgh, et al., \"Weave matching and dating of Van Gogh's paintings: an interdisciplinary approach,\" Burlington Magazine (February 2012): 114 (color ill.), 115.\n\nChristies, London, \"Maurice de Vlaminch (1876-1958): Les r\u00e9gates \u00e1 Bougival,\" Impressionist\/Modern Evening Sale: Wednesday 20 June 2012. \n\nH\u00e9l\u00e8ne Eisenberg and Fran\u00e7ois Lespinasse, Peintres de la Seine (Rouen : \u00c9ditions des Falaises, 2013), 206 no. 88, 207 (color ill.). \n\nRichard Kendall, Sjraar van Heugten, and Chris Stolwijk, Van Gogh and Nature, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015) fig. 89, cat. 20.\n\nNienke Bakker and Nicole R. Myers, eds., Van Gogh and the Olive Groves, exh. cat. (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2021), 34, 170 cat. 19, 197.\n\nBregje Gerritse and Jacquelyn N. Coutre, Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: Along the Seine, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), cover ill., 25, 88, 90 fig. 51, 197.","exhibition_history":"Possibly on loan to Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1927.\n\nAmsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Vincent van Gogh en zijn tijdgenooten, Sep. 6-Nov. 2, 1930, cat. 29.\n\nVenice, Palazzo dell'Esposizione, Ventunesima esposizione biennale internazionale d'arte, 1938 - 1939, cat. 14.\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Art Museum, Vincent van Gogh paintings and drawings. A special loan exhibition, Oct. 21, 1949 - Jan. 15, 1950, cat. 96; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1 - Apr. 16, 1950.\n\nNew Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, Van Gogh in Auckland, Aug.\u2013Sep., 1975, cat 5.\n\nToyko, National Museum of Western Art, Masterpieces of World Art From American Museums From Ancient Egyptian to Contemporary Art, Sep. 11-Oct. 17, 1976, cat. 47; Kyoto, National Museum, Nov. 2\u2013Dec. 5, 1976.\n\nLondon, Royal Academy of Arts, Post-Impressionism: Cross Currents in European Painting, Nov. 17, 1979 - Mar. 26, 1980, cat. 96; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European and American Painting, May 25 - Sep. 17, 1980 [London only].\n\nAlbi, Mus\u00e9e Toulouse-Lautrec, Tr\u00e9sors impressionnistes du Mus\u00e9e de Chicago, June 27-Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 28.\n\nMemphis, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, The Genius of van Gogh, May 9-June 13, 1982, cat. 12.\n\nTokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18-December 17, 1986, cat. 44; Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5-Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4-Apr. 13, 1986.\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, Van Gogh \u00e0 Paris, Feb. 2-May 15, 1988, cat. 30.\n\nLeningrad [now St. Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzsko\u012d zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-\u012corke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago, Mar. 15-May 19, 1988, cat. 22; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988. [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago]\n\nLondon, The National Gallery, Seurat and The Bathers, July 2-Sep. 28, 1997, cat 87.\n\nMartigny, Switzerland, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Van Gogh, June 21-Nov. 26, 2000, cat. 39.\n\nArt Institute, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South, Sep. 22, 2001-Jan. 13, 2002, cat. 18; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Feb. 9-June 2, 2002.\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, C\u00e9zanne to Picasso Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, Sep. 13, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007, cat. 116; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 17-May 13, 2007; Paris, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, June 18-Sep. 16, 2007. \n\nFort Worth, TX., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29\u2013Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 55.\n\nBasel, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Basel, Vincent van Gogh- Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes, Apr. 26 - Sep. 27, 2009, cat. 21. \n\nWilliamstown, Massachusetts, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Van Gogh and Nature, June 13-Sep. 13, 2015, cat. 20.\n\nDallas Museum of Art, Van Gogh and the Olive Groves, Oct. 17, 2021-Feb. 6, 2022; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Mar. 11-June 12, 2022, cat. 19.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape, May 14-Sep. 4, 2023, fig. 51; Amsterdam, Van gogh Museum, Van Gogh Along the Seine, Oct. 13-Jan. 14, 2024.","provenance_text":"The artist\u2019s sister-in-law, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (died 1925), Amsterdam [this and the following according to records in van Gogh Bonger\u2019s account book, reproduced in Stolwijk and Veenenbos 2000, 47 no. 12\/7, 142\u201343]; probably sent to Ambroise Vollard, Paris, Nov. 1896. Cornelis Hoogendijk (died 1911), The Hague, Netherlands, by 1906; by descent to his sister, Maria Ida Adriana (Riet) van Blaaderen-Hoogendijk (died 1942), Amsterdam, 1911 [Venice 1938]; by descent to her son, Tom van Blaaderen, Laren, 1942 [this and the following according to Wisselingh Stock Book, no. 6858, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, Netherlands; cited in a letter from Louis van Tilborg, Van Gogh Museum, Feb. 20, 2000]; sold to E. J. Van Wisselingh, Amsterdam, June 24, 1946; sold to Katz Art Gallery, Bussum and The Hague, Netherlands, June 24, 1946. 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