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Lot Essay
The discovery of this drawing was first made public when it was illustrated by Martha op de Coul in Oud Holland in 1983. She identified it as a study for the male figure in Van Gogh's detailed drawing Fish-drying barn in Scheveningen (JH 152, F. 938) of 1882, which is housed in the Kröller-Mller Museum, Otterlo.
Standing man with folded arms can be stylistically dated to the first half of 1882. This is not only because of its relationship to the Otterlo drawing, but also due to its similarity to the topographical drawings of The Hague that Van Gogh was working on in March and April of that year, particularly in the way the composition is built up by means of hatching. Only a few drawings of single figures are known from this period.
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Standing man with folded arms can be stylistically dated to the first half of 1882. This is not only because of its relationship to the Otterlo drawing, but also due to its similarity to the topographical drawings of The Hague that Van Gogh was working on in March and April of that year, particularly in the way the composition is built up by means of hatching. Only a few drawings of single figures are known from this period.
See colour illustration