This is an early watercolor artist with a picture of a dried willow, he created in 1882

Vincent Van Gogh
Source: artdaily. org

Yesterday, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, presented to the public its new acquisition: watercolor in 1882 became the first 5 years of work, filled up the museum's collection of famous masters.

shown on the product dried willow, standing on the shore of the pond on the way to The Hague, and struck the artist his lonely and sad appearance. At that time, the artist is only honed his skills with the vision and artistic mastery, using for this purpose a pencil and ink, so that the work is quite unusual for an early Van Gogh. The curator of the museum notes that, despite this, very finely executed watercolors and high quality.

According to director of the Van Gogh Museum, the work acquired at this year's auction in London for 1.5 million pounds ($ 1.9 million), has filled an important gap in the museum's collection. This is one of the first of his works in color, these works are very rare, and are still represented in the collections of the museum, they were not.

The artist elaborated on the circumstances of a watercolor with a willow in a letter brother, and later wrote to him, which is very pleased with the result, calling it the best of them all written in the summer of 1882.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source: artdaily.org , artinvestment.ru