The Red Vineyard
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| Artist | Vincent van Gogh |
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| Year | 1888 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 75 cm × 93 cm (29.5 in × 36.6 in) |
| Location | Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow |
The Red Vineyard is an oil painting by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, executed on a privately-primed Toile de 30 piece of burlap in early November 1888. It was supposedly the only piece sold by the artist while he was alive.
[edit] Provenance
The Red Vineyard was exhibited for the first time at the annual exhibition of Les XX, 1890 in Brussels, and sold for 400 Francs (equal to about $1,000-1,050 today) to Anna Boch,[1] an impressionist painter, member of Les XX and art collector from Belgium;[2][3] Anna was the sister of Eugène Boch, another impressionist painter and a friend of Van Gogh, too, who had painted Boch's portrait (Le Peintre aux Étoiles) in Arles, in autumn 1888.
Like The Night Café, it was acquired [4] by the famous Russian collector Sergei Shchukin, was then nationalised by the Bolsheviks with the rest of his collection and eventually passed to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.
[edit] References
- ^ Anna Boch.com, impressionist painter and Art Collector
- ^ Hulsker (1980), 356
- ^ Pickvance (1984), 168–169;206
- ^ History of the Red Vineyard painting by Anna Boch.com
[edit] Sources
- Hulsker, Jan. The Complete Van Gogh. Oxford: Phaidon, 1980. ISBN 0-7148-2028-8.
- Pickvance, Ronald. Van Gogh in Arles (exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Abrams, New York 1984. ISBN 0-8709-9375-5.
