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The Starry Night
The Starry Night is an oil on canvas by the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it describes the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an ideal village. 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. Regarded as among Van Gogh's finest works,
time, in 1891, the painting was entitled Coffeehouse, in the evening ("Café, le soir").
This is the first painting in which he used starry backgrounds; he went on to paint star-filled skies in "Starry Night Over the Rhône" (painted the same month), and the better known "The Starry Night" a year later. Van Gogh also painted a starlight background in "Portrait of Eugène Boch". Van Gogh mentioned the "Cafe Terrace" painting in a letter