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  1. Apr 5, 2024 · P. & N. de Boer Foundation, Amsterdam. The third De Boer painting on loan to the Rijksmuseum is Riverbank with Trees (spring 1887). It depicts a scene beside the Seine on the outskirts of Paris ...

  2. Feb 4, 2022 · The Red Vineyard is among Van Goghs most dramatically coloured Provençal landscapes, but it is also famed for being the only painting that the artist is certain to have sold. It went for...

    • Red Vineyard at Arles
    • A Self-Portrait Sold
    • Van Gogh Museum
    • Selling Van Gogh's Work After His Death

    In 1889, van Gogh was invited to participate in a group show in Brussels called the XX (or the Vingtistes). Van Gogh suggested to his brother, Theo, an art dealer and van Gogh's agent, that he send six paintings to be exhibited with the group, one of which was The Red Vineyard.Anna Boch, a Belgian artist and art collector, bought the painting in ea...

    The myth of The Red Vineyard being the only painting sold by van Gogh during his lifetime has been challenged by leading van Gogh scholar, Marc Edo Tralbaut, author of "Vincent Van Gogh, an Authoritative and Comprehensive Biography of Van Gogh." Tralbaut deduced that Theo sold a self-portrait by Vincent over a year before the sale of The Red Vineya...

    According to the Van Gogh Museum website, van Gogh actually sold or bartered a number of paintings during his lifetime. His first commission came from his uncle Cor who was an art dealer. Wanting to help his nephew's career he ordered 19 cityscapes of The Hague. Particularly when van Gogh was younger, he would trade his paintings for food or art su...

    Vincent died in July of 1890. Theo's greatest desire after his brother died was to make his work more widely known, but sadly he, himself, died just six months later from syphilis. He left a large collection of art to his wife, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, who Given that both Vincent and Theo died such untimely deaths within such a short time of one another...

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  4. Mar 31, 1987 · “Sunflowers,” a masterwork by impoverished Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh, who sold only one painting before his death by suicide, was purchased Monday by an anonymous buyer for nearly $40...

  5. Vincent Willem van Gogh ( Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ‿vɑŋ‿ˈɣɔx] ⓘ; [note 1] 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings ...

  6. That same year, he executed his first independent works in watercolor and ventured into oil painting; he also enjoyed his first earnings as an artist: his uncle, the art dealer Cornelis Marinus van Gogh, commissioned two sets of drawings of Hague townscapes for which Van Gogh chose to depict such everyday sites as views of the railway station ...

  7. JH1144. Object number. s0178V1962. Dimensions. 35.0 cm x 27.0 cm, 50.3 cm x 42.2 cm. Provenance. Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, sometime between the end of June and mid-July 1886; after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh ...