The Starry Night

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Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh, 1889

oil on canvas

73 × 92 cm

Museum of Modern Art, New York City

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The Starry Night is the title given to one of the best known and most reproduced paintings by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. Since 1941 it has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Already in autumn 1888, while Van Gogh was staying in Arles, he executed a painting commonly known as Starry Night Over the Rhone. Almost a year later, mid June 1889, he announced a new study of a starry sky[1], and a bit later, he incorporated a pen drawing in a set of a dozen done after recent paintings.

Then, mid September 1889, following a heavy crisis which lasted from mid July to the last days of August, he thought to include this Study of the Night[2] in the next batch of works to be sent to his brother Theo in Paris. But in order to reduce the shipping costs, he withheld three of his studies above-mentioned - Poppies - Night Effect - Moonrise; these three went to Paris with the shipment to follow.[3] As Theo did not immediately report its arrival, Vincent inquired again.[4], and finally received Theo's commentary on his recent work.