The Red Vineyard was exhibited for the first time at the
annual exhibition of Les XX, 1890, in Brussels, and sold for 400 francs to Belgian painter and collector
Anna Boch, a member of
Les XX. Anna was the sister of
Eugène Boch, another impressionist painter and a friend of Van Gogh, whose portrait van Gogh painted (
Le Peintre aux Étoiles) in
Arles in autumn 1888. In a later letter to his brother Theo discussing the sale, van Gogh admitted with some embarrassment that the Bochs paid the Les XX 1890 Exhibition sticker price, when in fact they probably should have gotten a "friend's price". The painting was later purchased, in 1909, from a Paris art gallery by
Ivan Morozov. After the
Russian Revolution, the painting was subsequently nationalised by the
Bolsheviks and was eventually passed to Moscow's
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. ==See also==