Two drawings by Van Gogh discovered. They will be exhibited in the Netherlands

Two new drawings by Vincent van Gogh (Zundert, 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890), both dated 1886 and depicting two views of Montmartre Hill in Paris, have been discovered. Confirmation of the discovery, which thus comes six years after the last acquisition of van Gogh’s catalog, came from experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. A study of the subject, style, materials and provenance of the two works was conducted to arrive at the final confirmation.

The news actually concerns only one of the two views, Montmartre Hill with Stone Quarry, which can be dated to March 1886: the other, Montmartre Hill, already known but previously not attributed to the Dutch genius because of the absence of material to make comparisons, has seen a change of assignment in the wake of the new discovery. The two drawings will now go on display at the Singer Laren Museum in the city of Laren, Netherlands, as part of the exhibition Impressionism & Beyond. A Wonderful Journey, which displays works from the collection of the Van Vlissingen Art Foundation, owner of the Montmartre Hill with Stone Quarry.

Vincent van Gogh, The Hill of Montmartre (1886; charcoal on paper; Zeist, Van Vlissingen Art Foundation)

“The two drawings,” assures Teio Meedendorp, Senior Researcher at the Van Gogh Museum, “were created with all evidence by the same hand and stylistically recall Van Gogh’s sketches from early 1886, made first in Antwerp and then in Paris, in Cormon’s studio. The materials used are also identical, and the subjects can be linked to the paintings van Gogh made in Montmartre in the spring and early summer of that year. These drawings demonstrate a stage in van Gogh’s learning process: in Paris, the artist rediscovered himself, but here he was still following a traditional artistic path.” Experts also said that the drawing from the Van Vlissingen Art Foundation (which acquired it in 2014) once belonged to the collection of Vincent and Theo van Gogh. It would later be sold by Theo’s widow, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, to art dealer J.H. de Bois in 1911. The drawing was then sold in 1917, and after this year traces of it were lost.

“It is fantastic news that two drawings can definitely be assigned to van Gogh’s catalog”: this is the comment of Axel Rüger, director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Pictured below: Vincent van Gogh, The Hill of Montmartre (1886; charcoal on paper, 31.8 x 47.8 cm; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum)

Two drawings by Van Gogh discovered. They will be exhibited in the Netherlands

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