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Letter from Vincent van Gogh, Arles, to Émile Bernard, 1888 April 19 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
267924
Accession number
MA 6441.4
Creator
Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890, sender.
Display Date
Arles, 1888 April 19
Credit line
Thaw Collection, given in honor of Charles E. Pierce, Jr., 2007.
Description
1 item (2 sheets) : illustrations ; 20.7 x 13.3 cm (8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches)
Notes
One of a group of 22 surviving letters from Van Gogh to Bernard from December 1887-November 1889, 19 of which are in the Morgan's collection (MA 6441).
Illustrated with a sketch of an orchard and house with orange roof (7.5 x 9.2 cm, 3 x 3 5/8 inches)
Written on one folded sheet, now separated into two sheets.
High reserve.
Provenance
Émile Bernard, until at least 1926; acquired by Baroness Marianne Goldschmidt-Rothschild (née Friedländer-Fuld), 1929 or earlier; by descent to her heirs, 1973; purchased by Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York, 2001 or 2003.