Title
The Starry Night
Object type painting
Genre landscape painting
Date 1889
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions height: 73 cm (28.7 in); width: 92 cm (36.2 in)
Collection
Museum of Modern Art wikidata:Q188740
Accession number
472.1941
Place of creation Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
Object history
1941: in collection of Museum of Modern Art
September 1889: in collection of Theo Van Gogh
January 1891: in collection of Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
1938: in collection of Paul Rosenberg
December 1900: in collection of Julien Leclercq
July 1905: in collection of Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
1906: in collection of Georgette Petronella van Stolk
1901: in collection of Émile Schuffenecker
December 1900: purchased by Julien Leclercq from Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
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."
References
Online database:
Museum of Modern Art: online database: entry 79802
