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The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, painted in June 1889.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.
The night sky and the effects of light at night provided the subject for some of van Gogh's more famous paintings, including Café Terrace at Night (painted earlier the same month) and the June, 1889, canvas from Saint-Remy, The Starry Night. A sketch of the painting is included in a letter van Gogh sent to his friend Eugène Boch on 2 October ...
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The Starry Night is one of Vincent van Gogh's most known and reproduced paintings, painted in 1889. It represents various elements seen in the area surrounding the asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence .
De sterrennacht, Dutch original title of The Starry Night, a 1889 painting by Van Gogh. Sterrennacht, official name of star HAT-P-6 . Topics referred to by the same term
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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
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