The Red Vineyard
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| The Red Vineyard |
| Vincent van Gogh, 1888 |
| oil on canvas |
| 75 × 93 cm, 29.5 × 36.6 inches |
| 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 the only piece sold by the artist while he was alive. [1]
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The Red Vineyard was exhibited for the first time at the annual exhibition of Les XX, 1890 in Brussels, and sold for 400 Francs (which is equal to about €800-850 or $1,000-1,050 today) to Anna Boch, an impressionist painter, member of Les XX and art mecene from Belgium; Anna Boch 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. For a while, The Red Vineyard was mistakenly believed to be the only work sold during Van Gogh's lifetime.[citation needed]
Like The Night Café, it was acquired by the famous Russian collection Sergei Shchukin, was then natonalised by the Bolsheviks with the rest of his collection and eventually passed to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.
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 Groups and series of works: The Décoration for the Yellow House | The Roulin Family | Display at Les XX, 1890 | Auvers size 30 canvases | Auvers Double-squares and Squares |
