The Starry Night

La Nuit étoilée

The Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Museum of Modern Art

New York, United States

About this painting

Painted from memory in his asylum studio rather than directly from life, combining the pre-dawn view from his east-facing window with an imagined village; it entered MoMA's collection in 1941 via the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

73.7 × 92.1 cm (29 × 36.3 in)

Painted at

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France

Current location

Museum of Modern Art, New York

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