Print of Vincent van Gogh - Red vineyard - 1888
Vincent van Gogh - Red vineyard near Arles or The red vineyard
Year: 1888 - oil on canvas cm 91x73
Preserved at: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia.
Vincent van Gogh painted the Red Vineyard near Arles or The Red Vineyard in November 1888. In a letter dated 2 October 1888, Vincent spoke of his intentions to Eugène Boch: «Well, I have to go and work on the vineyard near Mont Major. It's all purple, yellow and green under the blue sky, a beautiful color scheme. "
The red vineyard was exhibited at the annual Exhibition of the XX group in 1890 in Brussels and was sold, a few months before the painter's suicide, for the sum of 400 francs (equivalent to about 850 euros) to Anna Boch, an impressionist painter who was a member of the XX and Belgian patron and sister of Eugène Boch. It is one of the very few if not the only painting that Vincent van Gogh managed to sell in his life.
