The Red Vineyard
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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.
in Brussels, and sold for 400 Francs (equal to about $1,000-1,050 today) to Anna Boch
, an impressionist painter, member of Les XX
and art collector from Belgium; 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
, was then nationalised by the Bolsheviks with the rest of his collection and eventually passed to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow
.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
painter Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...
, executed on a privately-primed Toile de 30
French standard sizes for oil paintings
French standard sizes for oil paintings refers to a series of different sized canvases for use by artists. The sizes were fixed in the 19th century...
piece of burlap in early November 1888. It was supposedly 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, 1890Vincent van Gogh's display at Les XX, 1890
Vincent van Gogh's display at Les XX, 1890, in Brussels is an important testament to the recognition he received amongst avant-garde peers during his own lifetime. Participation in the annual exhibition of Les XX was for members and by invitation only...
in Brussels, and sold for 400 Francs (equal to about $1,000-1,050 today) to Anna Boch
Anna Boch
Anna Rosalie Boch was a Belgian painter, born in Saint-Vaast, Hainaut. Anna Boch died in Ixelles in 1936 and is interred there in the Ixelles Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium.-Artistic style:...
, an impressionist painter, member of Les XX
Les XX
Les XX was a group of twenty Belgian painters, designers and sculptors, formed in 1883 by the Brussels lawyer, publisher, and entrepreneur Octave Maus. For ten years 'Les Vingt' , as they called themselves, held an annual exhibition of their art; each year twenty international artists were also...
and art collector from Belgium; Anna was the sister of Eugène Boch
Eugène Boch
Eugène Boch was a Belgian painter, born in Saint-Waast, Nord, Hainaut, and the younger brother of Anna Boch, a founding member of Les XX....
, another impressionist painter and a friend of Van Gogh, too, who had painted Boch's portrait (Le Peintre aux Étoiles
Portrait of Eugene Boch
Portraits painted by Vincent van Gogh throughout his career from 1881 through 1890.-Portraits of Vincent van Gogh by other artists:Emile Bernard described Van Gogh as having "a sharp glace and a mouth incisively set as if to speak." Aside from consistent intensity to portraits of Van Gogh, his...
) in Arles, in autumn 1888.
Like The Night Café
The Night Café
The Night Café is an oil painting created in Arles in September 1888, by Vincent van Gogh...
, it was acquired by the famous Russian collector Sergei Shchukin
Sergei Shchukin
Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin was a Russian businessman who became an art collector, mainly of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, following a trip to Paris in 1897, when he bought his first Monet. He later bought numerous works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin, among...
, was then nationalised by the Bolsheviks with the rest of his collection and eventually passed to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
.
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 ArtMetropolitan Museum of ArtThe Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
, New York), Abrams, New York 1984. ISBN 0-8709-9375-5.