![]() Initially Morosov’s paintings were kept in his Moscow mansion, which was turned into a public museum. In 1919 he emigrated to Finland, dying in 1921. Morosov’s collection was nationalised in 1918, a year after the Russian Revolution. The asking price had risen to 30,000 francs, an indication of Van Gogh’s rapid rise to fame. Two years later The Red Vineyard was acquired by the avant-garde Moscow collector and textile factory owner Ivan Morosov. Credit: © Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts The James Philip Gray Collection (Jon Polak Photography) and Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow The two early collectors: Anna Boch (Théo Van Rysselberghe’s Portrait of Anna Boch, 1892) and Ivan Morosov (Valentin Serov’s Portrait of Ivan Abramovich Morosov, with a painting by Henri Matisse in the background, 1910). At the show it was bought by Anna Boch, who kept it until 1907. ![]() Among those he chose was The Red Vineyard, which he asked Theo to dispatch. Describing it as “very beautiful”, Theo hung it in the Parisian apartment he had just moved into with his bride Jo Bonger.Ī few months afterwards Vincent was offered the opportunity to exhibit a few paintings at an exhibition organised by the group Les Vingt in Brussels in January 1890. In April 1889 Vincent sent the painting to Theo in Paris. The Pushkin specialists suggest that she represents Van Gogh’s friend Marie Ginoux, who with her husband ran the Café de la Gare, just a few doors from the Yellow House, the artist’s home and studio. The woman on the far right, by the edge of the road, wears the traditional costume of the Arlésiennes, the famed women of Arles. The prominent woman in dark blue bending over a basket, in the central foreground, was added later. The man standing in the road in the upper right was originally a woman dressed in a skirt, white blouse and hat. Van Gogh also made changes to the composition. His original yellows would have been even brighter and still more dramatic. Van Gogh used chrome yellow paint, which darkens with exposure to light. ![]() Parts of the sun and sky are created from paint squeezed directly from the tube onto the canvas, with the artist sometimes using his finger to smooth it out.Ī technical analysis shows that the colouration of the sky has been partly lost. The Pushkin Museum’s examination of The Red Vineyard, sponsored by LG Signature, has revealed important details about how the picture was developed. On the horizon, to the far right, one can just make out the distant ruins of the abbey of Montmajour, painted in light blue. In the upper left, the row of trees shelters a road running north-east from Arles. The huge sun, setting in a late autumnal afternoon, produces an eerily yellow sky. On the right of the composition is what might appear as a river, but it is a road, glistening wet after recent rain. The vines are much redder than one would expect, with Vincent describing it as the colour of the plant Virginia Creeper. Van Gogh’s fiery colouration is certainly extreme. No doubt the two artists discussed this vineyard scene on their return after the walk-over a glass or two of the local Provençal red wine. Gauguin was then encouraging him to make his pictures more creative, less literal. In the distance it became yellow, and then a green sky with a sun, fields violet and sparkling yellow here and there after the rain in which the setting sun was reflected.”Īlthough Van Gogh liked to paint landscapes outdoors, he completed The Red Vineyard back in his studio-using his imagination. Vincent described the vineyard scene he had witnessed with Gauguin: “A red vineyard, completely red like red wine. On around 11 October Vincent had written to his brother Theo: "There are bunches weighing a kilo, even-the grape is magnificent this year, from the fine autumn days." Picking the grapes normally takes place in September in Provence, but the harvest seems to have been late that year. Van Gogh came across the vineyard on a late afternoon walk with Paul Gauguin on 28 October 1888, five days after his friend’s arrival in Arles. The Red Vineyard in the Pushkin’s conservation studio, Moscow, 2021 Credit: Pushkin Museum, Moscow
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