Vincent Van Gogh Paperweight - Glass - Starry Night (1888)

About Vincent Van Gogh Paperweight - Glass - Starry Night (1888)

The post-impressionist Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh’s most notorious work “Starry Night” (1889) currently found at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. is displayed on this Parastone glass half dome Van Gogh Paperweight. Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” displays his painting of a night view of his room window while voluntarily interned at an Asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provenance for around a year prior to his death after a self-mutilation episode. Van Gogh explains his inspiration for “Starry Night” in a letter written to his brother Theo:  “This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big.” Intertwining observation and imagination Van Gogh was able to produce Starry Night, one of the most notorious works in his artistic career, and one of the most iconic works in the history of art.