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Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night

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Alternative names	Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description	Dutch painter, draftsperson and printmaker
Date of birth/death	30 March 1853	29 July 1890
Location of birth/death	Zundert	Auvers-sur-Oise
Work period	between circa 1880 and circa July 1890 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1890-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	Netherlands (Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886 date QS:P,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Paris (1886–1887), Arles (1888–1889), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889–1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
Authority file	: Q5582 VIAF: 9854560 ISNI: 0000000120955689 ULAN: 500115588 LCCN: n79022935 NLA: 35130087 WorldCat

Title

The Starry Night

Object type

painting

Genre

landscape painting

Date

1889

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

73 × 92 cm (28.7 × 36.2 in)

Collection

Museum of Modern Art

	Native name	The Museum of Modern Art
	Parent institution	New York Art Resources Consortium
	Location	New York City
	Coordinates	40° 45′ 42″ N, 73° 58′ 39″ W
	Established	7 November 1929
	Website	moma.org
	Authority file	: Q188740 VIAF: 128460224 ISNI: 0000000123082510 ULAN: 500303609 LCCN: n79021281 NLA: 35382586 WorldCat

Accession number

472.1941

Place of creation

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

Object history

September 1889: in collection of Theo Van Gogh
January 1891: in collection of Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
December 1900: in collection of Julien Leclercq
December 1900: purchased by Julien Leclercq from Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
1901: in collection of Émile Schuffenecker
July 1905: in collection of Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
1906: in collection of Georgette Petronella van Stolk
1938: in collection of Paul Rosenberg
1941: in collection of Museum of Modern Art

Notes

Catalogues raisonnés:
F612: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 612 .
JH1731 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no. 1731.
See also F1540 The Starry Night (drawing, same composition) and the preliminary studies F1541v Bird's-Eye View of the Village and F1730 Landscape with Cypresses (Hulsker p. 396).
Letters
Letter 782: to Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 18 June 1889.. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "At last I have a landscape with olive trees [probably F712], and also a new study of a starry sky."
Letter 805: to Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 20 September 1889.. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "The olive trees with white cloud and background of mountains [F712], as well as the Moonrise and the Night effect – – These are exaggerations from the point of view of the arrangement, their lines are contorted like those of the ancient woodcuts."

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Museum of Modern Art: online database: entry 79802

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