While watching the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh, it may have surpassed your heart. If so, you need to be alongside billionaires with hundreds of millions of dollars or more, and even they may not be able to see them go up to the auction block. This will probably come as a surprise to Van Gogh himself, who has fallen into poverty after just a decade of artistic career, and is not actually known. Meanwhile, he was able to sell exactly one painting, at least according to a specific definition of “sale.” Van Gogh bartered for food and art supplies, and he accepted a committee that began with his art dealer Uncle Coe’s. However, when it comes to sales made to non-correlators through the official show, we know: La Vigne Rouge.
It is known in English as Red vineyard near Arleor simply Red vineyardThe painting depicts the scene where he encountered “a late afternoon walk with Paul Goggin on October 28, 1888, five days after his friend arrived in Ares.” So Martin Bailey writes Art Newspaper“The choice of grapes is usually done in Provence in September, but the harvest appears to have been slow that year.”
To his brother Theo, Vincent explained the scene in this way: “Red vineyards, completely red like red wine. In the distance there is a yellowish green sky with sun, wobbling, yellow glowing here and there after the rain that reflected the sun.” However, the artist has since not moved to set up the canvas. Rather, he painted the vineyard from memory the following month.
Vincent had his pariah part hung the resulting canvas in his Paris apartment in early 1890 for a group called Lesvint to display at the annual Brussels show. Red vineyard“The buyers were one of their numbers and a certain Anna Boch, a sister to a colleague of Impressionist Van Gogh (and The subject of a former portrait) Eugène Boch. She had nothing to do with, but Anna had paid the full sticker price for the painting. And Van Gogh later expressed some regret about not giving her “friend’s price.” But even if it cost her, it was definitely a steal compared to its value today after purchases by Russian collectors, revolutionary expropriation and proud exhibits following its long Soviet oppression. At the Pushkin State Museum in Moscow – They don’t even lend it because of the vulnerability of the painting.
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Based in Seoul Colin marshall Write and broadcasting stationTS about cities, languages, and culture. His projects include the Substack Newsletter Books about cities And the book The Stateless City: Walking through 21st century Los Angeles. Follow him on social networks previously known as Twitter @colinmarshall.
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