Notebooks & Correspondence Pads

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Starry Night (details), 1888
Oil on canvas. H. 73,0; W. 92,0 cm. Paris, musée d'Orsay
© Photo musée d'Orsay, dist. Rmn-GP / P. Schmidt

From the moment of his arrival in Arles, on 8 February 1888, Van Gogh was constantly preoccupied with the representation of "night effects". In April 1888, he wrote to his brother Theo: "I need a starry night with cypresses or maybe above a field of ripe wheat." In June, he confided to the painter Emile Bernard: "But when shall I ever paint the Starry Sky, this painting that keeps haunting me" and, in September, in a letter to his sister, he evoked the same subject: "Often it seems to me night is even more richly coloured than day". During the same month of September, he finally realised his obsessive project.

Notebook 15 x 21 cm - 64 pages, lined pages
Made in France on fine papers.
© GrandPalaisRmnCréations, Paris 2024