Vincent Van Gogh (attributed to/in the manner of) (1853-1890): Garden View of the Church at Auvers, 1890. Signed, lower right. Dark-brown ink drawing on heavy wove paper (having no apparent watermark), 4.75 x 5.5 inches.

Van Gogh spent only three months in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small village north of Paris. He moved there in 1890 after spending a year at the asylum in Saint-Rémy. This sketch has been identified as a view of the church in Auvers, which has the only gable-roof bell tower among the locations Van Gogh lived in France.
Vincent committed suicide in July, 1890, at the height of his genius.

Ex-collection Baron Herbert Hischemoeller van Kamphuyzen, Netherlands and Beverly Hills, California.

According to family sources, the present drawing was purchased from Mark Nixon and his long-time business partner, Baron Herbert Hischemoeller van Kamphuyzen (of the Netherlands). Nixon built the famous “Kasteel Kamphuyzen,” a 6,000 square foot home in Beverly Hills, California, naming the home after his partner, the Baron van Kamphuyzen. Van Kamphuyzen, who died in 1991, immigrated to the United States in the 1940’s, presumably bringing art and antiques from his family’s estate in Holland, and became a U.S. citizen in 1946. Van Kamphuyzen, who was educated at Eton in England, was an aide to Lord Baden Powell, and later became honorary consul general of the Ivory Coast. Specific details about the Baron’s collection of art and antiques are unclear although it is believed that both he and his partner, Mark Nixon, collected numerous Dutch, French, German, and European fine and decorative artworks. The present consignor’s family was friendly with Nixon for more than 30 years.

The preceding information was provided to the present owner and relayed to us., 4.75x5.5 inches.

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