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.

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.[1]

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,[2] an impressionist painter, member of Les XX and art collector from Belgium;[3][4] 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.[5] Later, it was being housed in the exquisite collection of Sergei Shchukin, in Shchukin‘s home at Trubestkoy Palace in Moscow.[6] After the Russian revolution, the painting was subsequently nationalised by the Bolsheviks, while Shchukin was allowed to emigrate to France.[7] The Red Vineyard was eventually passed to Moscow‘s Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, where it resides today.[8]

References
  1. 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) [...]
  2. "Anna Boch.com Impressionist, patron of many artists". annaboch.com. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  3. Hulsker (1980), 356
  4. Pickvance (1984), 168–169;206
  5. "The Red Vineyard by Vincent van Gogh - World's most valuable painting". annaboch.com. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  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.

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 Art, New York), Abrams, New York 1984. ISBN 0-87099-375-5.
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