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Summary

Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of Dr. Gachet

Artist



Alternative names	Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description	Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death	30 March 1853	29 July 1890
Location of birth/death	Zundert	Auvers-sur-Oise
Work period	between circa 1880 and circa July 1890 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1890-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	Netherlands (Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886 date QS:P,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Paris (1886–1887), Arles (1888–1889), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889–1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
Authority file	: Q5582 VIAF: 9854560 ISNI: 0000000120955689 ULAN: 500115588 LCCN: n79022935 NLA: 35130087 WorldCat

Title

French:

Portrait du docteur Gachet

Portrait of Dr. Gachet

Part of

Portrait paintings of Dr. Gachet

Series title

Portrait paintings of Dr. Gachet

Object type

painting / prime version

Genre

portrait

Description

English: Portrait of Dr. Gachet

This painting is the first version of this motif

Portrait of Dr. Gachet was painted in June 1890 at Auvers-sur-Oise, during the last months of van Gogh's life, before his suicide. He made two versions of the painting, which differ in color. Both are oil-on-canvas and measure 67 by 56 cm (26" by 22") in size. The first (this picture) was sold to a private collector in 1990 for $82.5 million; the second painting is currently on display at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France. This is one of the most expensive paintings created by Vincent van Gogh.

Depicted people

Paul Gachet

Date

Auvers-sur-Oise, June 1890

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 67 cm (26.3 in); width: 56 cm (22 in)

Collection

Private collection

Current location

Tokyo

Accession number

15774 ("degenerate art" collection)

Place of creation

Auvers-sur-Oise

Object history

1 December 1937: unknown event: confiscation
15 May 1990: sale of the collection of

Exhibition history

Notes

Catalogues raisonnés:

F753: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 753 .
JH2007 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no. 2007.

References

vangoghgallery.com

Source/Photographer

Unknown source

Other versions

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:22, 3 December 2014	819 × 1,008 (283 KB)	Philafrenzy	Without the lopsided white border
	12:37, 28 June 2010	832 × 1,024 (233 KB)	Amandajm	Reverted to version as of 17:45, 15 May 2005. The "editted" version has lost all the subtlety of the colours, it has turned the light areas of paint in the jacket into white flecks, in short, the earlier version is very very much better!
	02:51, 12 August 2007	953 × 1,140 (535 KB)	Beyond silence
	17:45, 15 May 2005	832 × 1,024 (233 KB)	Neutrality	Vincent van Gogh's ''Portrait of Dr. Gachet'' was painted in June 1890, during the last months of his life before his suicide. He made two versions of the painting, which differ in color. Both are oil-on-canvas and measure 67