The picture ‘’Starry Night’’ is a masterpiece of the Neo-Impressionist
painter Vicent Van Gogh, that is in the MoMa Museum (New York). This picture shows a night from a window of a
room in the sanatorium ‘’Saint-Rémy-de-Provence’, where he lived the last period
of his life’. Different houses of the town and trees are painted in the
foreground.
It was inspired by the night, it was painted in day from memory, in 1889, thirteen months
before his suicide. Since 1941 it formed part of the permanent
Collection in the Museum of Art of New York.It is considered the magnum opus of
Van Gogh, that has been reproduced a lot of times. It is one of his best known pictures.
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