Facts About The Red Vineyard
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.
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, 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.
The painting was later purchased, in 1909, from a Paris art gallery by Ivan Morozov. Later, it was being housed in the exquisite collection of Sergei Shchukin, in Shchukin‘s home at Trubestkoy Palace in Moscow. After the Russian revolution, the painting was subsequently nationalised by the Bolsheviks, while Shchukin was allowed to emigrate to France. The Red Vineyard was eventually passed to Moscow‘s Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, where it resides today.
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