L'Arlésienne (painting)

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L'Arlésienne, L'Arlésienne (Madame Ginoux), or Portrait of Madame Ginoux are titles given to six paintings by Vincent van Gogh, painted in Arles, November 1888 (or later), and in Auvers, February 1890.

Marie Jullian (or Julien), born in Arles June 8, 1848 and died there August 2, 1911, married Joseph-Michel Ginoux in 1866. Together they ran the Café de la Gare, 30 Place Lamartine, where Van Gogh lodged from May to mid September 1888, when he had the Yellow House in Arles furnished to settle there.

Evidently until this time, Van Gogh's relations to the Ginoux's had remained more or less commercial, but Gauguin's arrival in Arles altered the situation: His courtship charmed the elderly lady, then just 40 years of age, and in the very first days of November 1888 (November 1st, or more probably November 2nd) Madame Ginoux agreed to have a portrait session for Paul Gauguin, and his friend Van Gogh. Within a little hour, Gauguin produced a charcoal drawing, while Vincent slashed a full-scale painting.

Contents 1 The November 1888 version and its repetition 2 The February 1890 versions 3 Gauguin's versions 4 Resources 4.1 Footnotes 4.2 External links 5 See also

[edit] The November 1888 version and its repetition

Van Gogh's first version, now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, is painted on burlap, a complete piece of which was acquired by Gauguin just after his arrival in Arles and used by both artists in November and December 1888.^[1]

For the second version, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Van Gogh used again the commercially pre-primed canvas he was used to till October 1888 and from January 1889, and he replaced the gloves and umbrella with some books.

[edit] The February 1890 versions

While in the asylum at Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted another four portraits of Madame Ginoux, based on Gauguin's charcoal drawing of November 1888.

On 2 May, 2006 the painting with the floral background sold at auction at Christie's Galleries at Rockefeller Center, New York, for more than $40 million (USD).

[edit] Gauguin's versions

Gauguin produced a charcoal sketch at the original sitting of Madame Ginoux in November 1888, and later produced a canvas.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] External links

• BBC news story of May 2006 auction

[edit] See also

• L'Arlésienne (play)

Vincent van Gogh

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