Starry Night over the Rhone

Date: 1888
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Dimensions: 72.5 x 92

Since his arrival in Arles in February 1888 van Gogh fascinated by the night sky, over whose rendition for a long time, thinking. In one of his letters he wrote to his sister: I often feel that the night you got a richer color than a day. In September 1888 he finally went to work over the chanting theme. The painting Starry Night Cologne captured the colors exactly as they spoke to him and immortalized as reflections gas lamps on the water and a couple of lovers in the foreground. A few months later, he was confirmed by his mental disorder, he painted one of his most famous paintings on the same theme, Starry Night , where his fragile psyche fully manifested.

Gogh painted picture Starry Night over the Rhone in 1888. Prevailing color of this fine art print is blue and its shape is landscape. Original size is 72.5 x 92. This art piece is located in Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890). Dutch painter belonging to Post-Impressionism. His paintings (some 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches) are among the most famous in the world and are sold for exorbitant sums (except for those in our shop). Parisian Impressionists He lived in Paris from 1886 and was influenced by the use of bright colours - most of his works were painted during this period. In his paintings, Gogh uses contrasting colours (often blue and orange - he said that I want to use colours other contrasts to each of them shone even more to contrast a man and a woman). He was known for his excesses and amputated an ear after the break-up of his friendship with Gauguin. There is a lot of speculation about this incident (he possibly suffered from heavy metal poisoning from paint that had caused mental problems). In 1890, unfortunately he committed suicide.