Artist Vincent van Gogh Period Realism | Created 1884 Genre Animal Painting | |
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Cart with Black Ox, or The Ox-Cart, is an oil painting created in 1884 by Vincent van Gogh. It was donated in 2007 to the Portland Art Museum.
An early work created in the village of Nuenen before Van Gogh went to the South of France, the painting has a dark palette and has been described as "disquieting"; the ox and cart are both decrepit. A related painting made the same year, Cart with Red and White Ox, is in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands. Cart with Black Ox was owned by a family who had bought it in 1950, and as of 2010 is the most valuable gift yet made to the Portland Art Museum.
In 2010 the painting was analyzed by digital X-ray and CT scanning to look for information on the artist's working methods and to add to the database at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. A painted-out flying bird was discovered.