The Starry Night was painted mid-June by around 18 June, the date he wrote to his brother Theo to say he had a new study of a starry sky. Paul Getty Museum, and the blue self-portrait from September, 1889, in the Musée d'Orsay. During this period, he produced some of the best-known works of his career, including the Irises from May 1889, now in the J. ĭuring the year Van Gogh stayed at the asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, the prolific output of paintings he had begun in Arles continued. Housed in a former monastery, Saint-Paul-de-Mausole catered to the wealthy and was less than half full when Van Gogh arrived, allowing him to occupy not only a second-story bedroom but also a ground-floor room for use as a painting studio. In the aftermath of the 23 December 1888 breakdown that resulted in the self-mutilation of his left ear, Van Gogh voluntarily admitted himself to the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole lunatic asylum on. The asylum The Monastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole Widely regarded as Van Gogh's magnum opus, The Starry Night is one of the most recognizable paintings in Western art. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village. The Starry Night ( Dutch: De sterrennacht) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh.
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