Where is The Starry Night? (2024)

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Where is The Starry Night? ›

Van Gogh's rolling night sky full of bright stars is probably one of the world's most famous artworks. The Starry Night's home is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Van Gogh's rolling night sky full of bright stars is probably one of the world's most famous artworks. The Starry Night's home is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Anyone visiting New York this summer with plans to see Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night at the Museum of Modern Art will need to reroute about a mile and half north. From May 22 to August 27, 2023, the Dutch painter's 1889 masterpiece will reside at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its Van Gogh's Cypresses exhibit.

The ideal way to see Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night is in person, right in front of it, on the fifth floor of MoMA.

It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. Widely regarded as Van Gogh's magnum opus, The Starry Night is one of the most recognizable paintings in Western art.

Where is the real Mona Lisa kept? The Mona Lisa hangs behind bulletproof glass in a gallery of the Louvre Museum in Paris, where it has been a part of the museum's collection since 1804.

Starry Night Over the Rhone was painted in Paris, sitting outside and looking at the scene. This is different from The Starry Night, which was painted from memory in his studio.

Starry Night over the Rhone, from the collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, is to be lent for an exhibition in Arles—the city where it was painted in September 1888. The picture will be the main attraction in the show Van Gogh and the Stars (opening 1 June 2024) at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles .

The Mona Lisa is priceless. Any speculative price (some say over a billion dollars!) would probably be so high that not one person would be able or willing to purchase and maintain the painting. Moreover, the Louvre Museum would probably never sell it.

Vincent van Gogh | Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Where is Van Gogh buried? ›

Van Gogh died in Auvers-sur-Oise on 29 July 1890. He is buried in the municipal cemetery next to his brother Theo. Both graves and the village, an outdoor museum with reproductions of his paintings (free map available from the Tourist Office) have become a pilgrimage for art lovers.

The Starry Night is not in the Vincent Van Gogh Museum because they do not own the painting. The painting was purchased from a private Dutch collection around 1941 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA) in New York City. The Starry Night is still on exhibit at the MoMA as of 2021.

The most expensive painting ever sold is the Salvator Mundi, the Saviour of the World in English, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.

One of the most striking parts of The Starry Night is the curved, black cypress tree at the right of the piece. Cypress trees are commonly associated with cemeteries and death, and perhaps the prominence of the tree in the piece was intended to symbolize Van Gogh's depressed mental state.

Lack of technical skill: Some art critics have argued that van Gogh's brushwork in "Starry Night" is sloppy and lacks the precision and finesse of other works from the same period. They have also criticized his use of color, which they see as overly intense and unrealistic.

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The four famous starry sky paintings, Starry Night over the Rhone, Starry Night, Café Terrace and Portrait of Eugene Boch, form a series of stark and visually powerful works that celebrate the night sky as much as Van Gogh also celebrated the blazing Provencal sun.

On a busy Thursday afternoon, visitors to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York packed into the institution's fifth-floor display of collection objects from the 1880s through the 1940s, where a large crowd gathered in front of Vincent van Gogh's “The Starry Night” (1889).