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 known by name that van Gogh sold during his lifetime.[1]

Red Vineyards near Arles
ArtistVincent van Gogh
Year1888
Catalogue
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions75 cm × 93 cm (29.5 in × 36.6 in)
LocationPushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

It has been listed among the artist's major works.[2]

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,[3] an impressionist painter, member of Les XX and art collector from Belgium;[4][5] 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. 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 'friends price.'

The painting was later purchased, in 1909, from a Paris art gallery by Ivan Morozov.[6] Later, it was being housed in the exquisite collection of Sergei Shchukin, in Shchukin‘s home at Trubetskoy House in Moscow.[7] After the Russian revolution, the painting was subsequently nationalised by the Bolsheviks, while Shchukin was allowed to emigrate to France.[8] The Red Vineyard was eventually passed to Moscow‘s Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, where it resides today.[9]

References
  1. "How Many Paintings Did Vincent Sell during His Lifetime?". vangoghmuseum.nl. Retrieved November 25, 2021.
  2. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Russia. Penguin. 2016. ISBN 1465462635. [...] but the real masterpieces are upstairs. On the second floor are paintings by Vincent van Gogh, including The Red Vineyard at Arles (1888) and Prisoners Exercising (1890) [...]
  3. "Anna Boch.com Impressionist, patron of many artists". annaboch.com. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  4. Hulsker (1980), 356
  5. Pickvance (1984), 168–169;206
  6. "The Red Vineyard by Vincent van Gogh - World's most valuable painting". annaboch.com. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  7. "The Red Vineyard by Vincent van Gogh - World's most valuable painting". annaboch.com. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  8. "The Red Vineyard by Vincent van Gogh - World's most valuable painting". annaboch.com. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  9. "The Red Vineyard by Vincent van Gogh - World's most valuable painting". annaboch.com. Retrieved 2019-06-10.

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