''The Red Vineyards near Arles'' is an oil painting by the
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painter
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inc ...
, executed on a privately primed
Toile de 30 piece of burlap in early November 1888. It depicts workers in a
vineyard
A vineyard (; also ) is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture. Vineya ...
, and it is the only painting known by name that Van Gogh sold in his lifetime.
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 Belgian painter and collector
Anna Boch, a member of
Les XX
''Les XX'' ( French; "''Les Vingt''"; ; ) 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, they held an annual exhibition of their ar ...
. Anna was the sister of
Eugène Boch
Eugène Boch (1 September 1855 – 3 January 1941) was a Belgian painter, born in Saint-Vaast, La Louvière, Hainaut. He was the younger brother of Anna Boch, a founding member of Les XX.
Life
Eugène Boch was born into the fifth generation ...
, another impressionist painter and a friend of Van Gogh, too, who had painted Boch's portrait (''
Le Peintre aux Étoiles'') in
Arles
Arles (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Arle ; Classical la, Arelate) is a coastal city and commune in the South of France, a subprefecture in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in the former province of ...
, in autumn 1888. In a later letter to his brother Theo discussing the sale, Van Gogh admitted with some embarrassment that the Bochs paid the Les XX 1890 Exhibition sticker price, when in fact they probably should have gotten a "friend's price".
The painting was later purchased, in 1909, from a Paris art gallery by
Ivan Morozov. After the
Russian Revolution, the painting was subsequently nationalised by the
Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
and was eventually passed to Moscow‘s
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (russian: Музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина, abbreviated as ) is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street, just oppo ...
, where it resides today.
See also
*
List of works by Vincent van Gogh
References
Sources
*
Hulsker, Jan. ''The Complete Van Gogh''. Oxford: Phaidon, 1980. .
*Pickvance, Ronald. ''Van Gogh in Arles'' (exh. cat.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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, New York), Abrams, New York 1984. .
External links
*
The Red Vineyard.com- history of the van Gogh Painting
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Vincent van Gogh paintings of Arles
1888 paintings
Paintings in the collection of the Pushkin Museum
Farming in art
Horses in art
Water in art
Sun in art