Watermark: "PL BAS"
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, "Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection", 2017. Exh. cat., no. 165, repr.
Denison, Cara D. et al. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw. Part II. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985, no. 53. (also in Thaw III, no. 92)
Denison, Cara D. et al. The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and New Acquisitions. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994, no. 92.
De la Faille, J.-B.: The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings. New York, 1970, cat. no. 1440.
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Van Gogh in Arles. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984, pp. 83-92.
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Van Gogh visited the Mediterranean fishing village of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the early summer of 1888, where, as he wrote to his brother, he hoped to "get my drawings more spontaneous, more exaggerated." This sheet is one of nine he made during his week in the village, and one of four he kept in his studio in Arles upon his return. The spontaneity he hoped to achieve is expressed in a vigorous, freely drawn graphite sketch that he then articulated with a broad-nibbed reed pen in a series of marks that range from coarse to delicate. -- Exhibition Label, from "Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection"
Gogh-Bonger, J., Mrs., former owner.
Bonger, E., Miss, former owner.
Mengelberg, Willem, former owner.
Ritter, Louis, former owner.
Ritter, Louis, Mrs., former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.