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  Anna Boch owned 2 van Gogh paintings, .... her brother Eugene several |
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Anna Boch bought the painting for 350 Francs (about 1400 $ today)
at the gallery Tanguy in Paris in 1891.
She kept it in her house in Brussels, rue de l´Abbaye until 1906.
In 1906 Anna Boch sold the painting at the galerie Bernheim,
25 Boulevard de la Madeleine in Paris.
The reason for her sale was not the need of the money
(which was reinvested in Signac paintings later donated to the Musees Nationaux de Beaux Arts de Belgique)
but the fact that she was intimidated by the beauty of the van Gogh paintings.
In fact she thought that the paintings were so beautiful
that they frustrated her and blocked her own creativity to paint.
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we do note know where the painting was between 1906 and 1920
The painting was bought in 1920 by the British business man and Art Collector,
Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947)
great nephew of the Textile magnat Samuel Courtauld.
In 1932 he founded the Courtauld Intitute of Art
and donated his collection to the institute.
The Peach Blossoms in the Crau are located in the Harry Neal Room in the Courtauld Institute of Art
in London.
