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

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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.

Technical Specifications

  • Dimensions: 3" x 3" x 1.5"H inches
  • Weight: 0.75 lbs (est)
  • Material: Half-dome Glass.
  • Original: Van Gogh, Vincent. Starry Night. 1888. Oil on Canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Van Gogh

Van Gogh

Van Gogh was a master painter who strongly influenced the abstract and Neo-expressionist who came after him. Originating from the Netherlands, he discovered Impressionist art while living in Paris and started to use the color and light. His work is well known for its beauty, emotion, and color, as well as its interesting viewpoints of mundane objects. Despite being extremely poor and generally unknown throughout his lifetime, Van Gogh is now one of the greatest Dutch painters.  He lived a life with emotional tension and madness, and he created his finest piece, Starry Night, inside an institution. Although the specter of mental illness haunted him throughout his adult life and created a habit of inflicting self-harm (such as the infamous severed ear), his work remained a testament to his genius. Van Gogh died at the age of only 37, due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His brother Theo would go on to distribute his work and cultivate his popularity.

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