Vincent van gogh biography starry night

painting by Vincent van Gogh

This article is about the Van Gogh painting. For the similar Van Gogh painting, see Starry Night Over the Rhône.

For the painting by Jean François Millet, see Starry Night (Millet).

"Starry Night" redirects here. For other uses, see Starry Night (disambiguation).

The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, painted in June It depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village.^[1][2][3] It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since ,^[4] acquired through the Lillie P.

Bliss Bequest. Widely regarded as Van Gogh's magnum opus,^[5]The Starry Night is one of the most recognizable paintings in Western art.^[6][7]

The asylum

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