The Red Vineyard
| Red Vineyards near Arles | |
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| Artist | Vincent van Gogh |
| Year | 1888 |
| 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 supposedly is the only piece sold by the artist while he was alive.
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 by the famous Russian collector Sergei Shchukin,[4] was then nationalised by the Bolsheviks with the rest of his collection, which eventually passed to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.
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
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
