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In these works, he simplified his palette, employed more vibrant colors, and used a thicker, broader paint application than he had earlier. Here he explored the use of complementary colors\u2014yellow and purple, blue and orange, and red and green\u2014in the service of chromatic intensity. The effect of these color contrasts is heightened by the pulsating pattern of brushstrokes that defines the tablecloth and creates a force field around the fruit. The painting was probably among the \u201cviolent still lifes\u201d\u2014to quote Van Gogh\u2019s friend the painter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/33617\">Emile Bernard<\/a>\u2014that he included in the group exhibition of young avant-garde artists that he organized at a local restaurant in November\u2013December 1887.<\/p>\n","short_description":"This is one of a group of related canvases featuring fruit that Van Gogh painted in 1887. In these works, he employed more vibrant colors and used a thicker, broader paint application than he had earlier. Here, he used complementary colors whose contrasting effect is heightened by the pulsating pattern of brushstrokes that defines the tablecloth and creates a force field around the fruit.","dimensions":"46.5 \u00d7 55.2 cm (18 1\/4 \u00d7 21 3\/4 in.); Framed: 57.8 \u00d7 66.7 \u00d7 5.1 cm (22 3\/4 \u00d7 26 1\/4 \u00d7 2 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":55,"height":46,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":5,"width":66,"height":57,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Gift of Kate L. Brewster","catalogue_display":"<p>Faille, de la 382<\/p><p>Hulsker 1337<\/p>","publication_history":"Henri Hertz, \u201cLa crise pr\u00e9sente des arts plastiques: T\u00e9moignage et Argument de Van Gogh,\u201d L\u2019Amour de l\u2019art 3, no. 7 (July 1922): 207 (ill.).\n\nAlbert Franz Cochrane, \u201cFogg Museum Stages Magnificent Exhibition of French Art,\u201d Boston Evening Transcript, March 9, 1929.\n\nJ[acob]-B[aart] de la Faille, L\u2019Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh: Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9, vol. 2 (Paris and Brussels: G. van Oest, 1928), 107 no. 382, pl. 104.\n\nClarence J. Bulliet, \u201cFogg Museum Joins in Fight on Fog [Pardon!],\u201d Chicago Evening Post, April 16, 1929.\n\nSmith College Museum of Art Bulletin (1935): 18 no. 16.\n\nLamberto Vitali, Vincent van Gogh (Milan: U. Hoepli, 1936), pl. 5.\n\nJacob-Baart de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh (New York: French and European Publications; Paris: Hyperion Press, 1939), 241 (ill.).\n\nDaniel Catton Rich, \u201cThe Kate L. Brewster Bequest,\u201d The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 44 (1955): 51, 55 (ill.).\n\nPaintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 182.\n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cGreat Chicago Collectors,\u201d Apollo (September 1966): 203.\n\nJacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings (New York: Reynal, 1970), 176-77 no. F382, 626.\n\nBogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, Vincent Van Gogh: His Paris Period 1886-1888 (Utrecht: Editions Victorine, 1976), 110, 231.\n\nPaolo Lecaldano, L'opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh e i suoi nessi grafici vol. 1: Da Etten a Parigi (Milan: Rizzoli, 1977), 118-19 no. 451.\n\nJan Hulsker, The complete Van Gogh: Paintings, drawings, sketches (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1980), 296, 300, no. 1337 (ill.). [rev. ed. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: J.M. Meulenhoff; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1996]\n\nBelinda Thomson, Van Gogh (hicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New York: distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 2001), 28, 47, 84-85 fig. 8.\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), 25 n33.\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), 121 cat. 56.\n\nCornelia Homburg, ed., Van Gogh: Up Close, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), 6, 18, 191 fig. 143, 253. \n\nGloria Groom, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Press, 2016), plate 10.\n\nVan Gogh Still Lifes, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel, 2019), 140, 172-73, 238-39, 252, 262.\n\nJill Shaw, ed., Van Gogh in America, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022), 152 pl. 55, 153, 214, 218, 254 cat. 26.\n\nGloria Groom, \"A Stack for Every Season\" in Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago, James Rondeau, ed. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2026), 124, fig. 3.","exhibition_history":"Munich, Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Nachtragswerk III zur grossen Katalogausgabe (1916), 1918, cat. 115.\n\nArts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibitions of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, Jan. 4-18, 1929, cat. 18.\n\nCambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Mar. 6-Apr. 6,1929, cat. 94.\n\nNew York, Museum of Modern Art, First Loan Exhibition, C\u00e9zanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, Nov. 7\u2013Dec. 7, 1929, cat. 94.\n\nChicago, Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Special View for the Benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society, Jan. 20-22, 1933, cat. 30.\n\nNorthampton, MA, Single Picture Exhibition, Summer 1935.\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Gogh, Paintings and Drawings, Oct. 21, 1949-Jan. 15, 1950, cat. 55; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1-Apr. 16, 1950.\n\nKansas City, MO, Nelson-Atkins Gallery, Tracing the History of Modern Painting, Jan. 19, 1961\u2013Feb. 28, 1961.\n\nAlbi, Mus\u00e9e Toulouse-Lautrec, Tr\u00e9sors impressionnistes du Mus\u00e9e de Chicago, June 27-Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 44.\n\nTokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 18-Dec. 17, 1986, cat. 41; Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5-Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4-Apr. 13, 1986.\n\nLeningrad [now Saint 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, not included in cat.; 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\nArt Institute of Chicago, Tour de France: Paintings, Photographs, Prints, and Drawings from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 9, 1989-Mar. 4, 1990, no cat.\n\nLondon, National Gallery, Degas as a Collector, May 22-Aug. 26, 1996, cat. 25.\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, Oct. 1, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998, cat. 595. \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. 114; 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. 56.\n\nPhiladelphia Museum of Art, Van Gogh: Up Close, Jan. 1-May 6, 2012, cat. 143; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, May 25-Sep. 2, 2012.\n\nDenver Art Museum, Van Gogh's Awakening: Antwerp, Paris, Arles, Oct. 20, 2012-Jan. 20, 2013.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, Feb. 14 - May 10, 2016, no cat. no., plate 10.\n\nPotsdam, Germany, Museum Barberini, Van Gogh: Still Lifes, Oct. 26, 2019 - Feb. 2, 2020.\n\nDetroit Institute of Art, Van Gogh and America, Oct. 2, 2022 - Jan. 22, 2023, cat. 26.","provenance_text":"The artist\u2019s brother, Theo van Gogh (died 1891), Paris; either by descent to his brother-in-law, Andres Bonger, or to Julien Tanquy [this and the following according to Stolwijk and Veenenbos, 2002, 25]. \u00c9mile Bernard, Paris, around March 1894; sold to Ambroise Vollard, Paris, Aug. 14, 1894 [Fonds Archives, MS 421 (4,3) fol. 4, August 14, 1894, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, Paris; New York 2006]; sold to Edgar Degas (died 1917), Paris, possibly Oct. 1895 [Degas inventory no. 173; New York 1997 and New York 2006]; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Mar. 25-26, 1918, lot 29 [sale catalogue in curatorial object file]; sold to Paul Rosenberg, Paris, for 16,500 francs [this and the following according to  New York 2006]. Henry-Jean Laroche, Paris, by 1928. Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago, by 1928 [Chicago 1933 and label on the reverse]. Walter S. Brewster (died 1954) and Kate L. 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