1888 Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 75 X 93 cm
The Red Vineyard 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 supposedly is the only piece sold by the artist while he was alive. While painting Van Gogh was not standing in front of the Vineyard, he painted it at the Yellow House completely out of memory and imagination the day after he walked through the nearby Wine plantation.
Provenance:
The Red Vineyard was exhibited for the first time at the annual exhibition of Les XX, 1890 in Brussels, and sold for 400 Francs to Anna Boch, an impressionist painter, member of Les XX and art collector from Belgium. Anna was the sister of Eugene Boch, another impressionist painter and a friend of Van Gogh, too, who had paired Boch's portrait in Arles, in autumn 1888. It was acquired by the famous Russian collector Sergei Shchukin, was then nationalized by the Bolsheviks with the rest of his collection, which eventually passed to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.
