The Red Vineyard
| Red Vineyards near Arles | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Artist | Vincent van Gogh |
| Year | 1888 |
| Catalogue | |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 75 cm × 93 cm (29.5 in × 36.6 in) |
| Location | Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow |
The Red Vineyards near Arles 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 depicts workers in a vineyard, and is believed to be the only painting van Gogh sold during his lifetime.
It has been listed among the artist's major works.[1]
History
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 $2,000 today) to Anna Boch,[2] an impressionist painter, member of Les XX and art collector from Belgium;[3][4] 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.
The painting was later purchased, in 1909, from a Paris art gallery by Ivan Morozov.[5] Later, it was being housed in the exquisite collection of Sergei Shchukin, in Shchukin‘s home at Trubestkoy Palace in Moscow.[6] After the Russian revolution, the painting was subsequently nationalised by the Bolsheviks, while Shchukin was allowed to emigrate to France.[7] The Red Vineyard was eventually passed to Moscow‘s Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, where it resides today.[8]
References
- ^ DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Russia. Penguin. 2016. ISBN 1465462635.
[...] but the real masterpieces are upstairs. On the second floor are paintings by Vincent van Gogh, including The Red Vineyard at Arles (1888) and Prisoners Exercising (1890) [...]
- ^ "Anna Boch.com Impressionist, patron of many artists". annaboch.com. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
- ^ Hulsker (1980), 356
- ^ Pickvance (1984), 168–169;206
- ^ "The Red Vineyard by Vincent van Gogh - World's most valuable painting". annaboch.com. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ^ "The Red Vineyard by Vincent van Gogh - World's most valuable painting". annaboch.com. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ^ "The Red Vineyard by Vincent van Gogh - World's most valuable painting". annaboch.com. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ^ "The Red Vineyard by Vincent van Gogh - World's most valuable painting". annaboch.com. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
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 0-87099-375-5.
External links
Media related to The Red Vineyard at Wikimedia Commons
