Collection histories

Amsterdam

Van Gogh Museum

A substantial share of Van Gogh's surviving drawings remained with the family and eventually passed to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, whose works are on permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum. After Theo's death in 1891, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger preserved and actively circulated the drawings: she lent fifteen selected sheets to Les XX in Brussels, where seven Provençal works were shown, and organized roughly two dozen Van Gogh exhibitions before the First World War, about half devoted to drawings.

Museum collection

Selected provenance records

  1. Worn Out

    F997, JH267

    Gogh.art

    After Theo van Gogh's death in 1891, the drawing passed by inheritance to Vincent Willem van Gogh and was administered by Johanna van Gogh-Bonger. It was loaned to the Stedelijk Museum from 1931 to 1973, transferred to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation in 1962, and placed on permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum in 1973.

  2. The Entrance to the Pawn Bank

    F1679a, JH126; d J74 V/1975

    Commissioned from the artist by his uncle C. M. van Gogh in 1882, the drawing remained unsold at a 1902 auction, passed through the 't Lam family, and was purchased by the Vincent van Gogh Foundation in 1975 before entering the Van Gogh Museum on permanent loan.

  3. Country Road

    F1089, JH124; d 428 V/1962

    The drawing passed from Theo van Gogh in 1891 to Vincent Willem van Gogh, administered by Johanna van Gogh-Bonger; it was loaned to the Stedelijk Museum from 1931 to 1973, transferred to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation in 1962, and placed on permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum in 1973.

  4. Landscape in Drenthe

    F1104, JH424; d 810 M/1986

    Left with the artist's mother in 1885, the drawing passed through Breda, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, London and private collectors before the Van Gogh Museum acquired it at Christie's in 1986 with support from the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and Vereniging Rembrandt.

  5. Landscape with a Stack of Peat and Farmhouses

    F1099, JH399; d 386 M/1977

    After remaining with the artist's mother, the drawing moved through dealers, the Gieseler and Van Beuningen collections, and was acquired by the Van Gogh Museum from a private collector in 1977.

  6. Weaver

    F1115, JH502; d 423 V/1962

    The drawing followed the principal family route: Theo van Gogh, then Vincent Willem van Gogh under Johanna van Gogh-Bonger's administration, a 1931-1973 Stedelijk Museum loan, transfer to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation in 1962, and permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum in 1973.