Who owns starry night painting

This too may be so; it is possible that premonitions of sufferings to come are articulated in the picture. But Biblical allegory is present throughout van Gogh's oeuvre, and he had no need of a special motif, least of all a starry sky, with all its associations of Arles and Utopian visions. Rather, van Gogh was trying to summarize; and his resume juxtaposed natural, scientific, philosophical and personal elements.

Starry Night is an attempt to express a state of shock, and the cypresses, olive trees and mountains had acted as van Gogh's catalyst. More intensely, perhaps, than ever before, Van Gogh was interested in the material actuality of his motifs as much as in their symbolic dimensions.

There had been hills in Arles too, of course. But they entered his panoramic scenes as idyllic touches. His landscapes included the harvest, passing trains, isolated farmsteads and distant towns; and the hills were simply one more detail.

In Arles, Van Gogh's dream had been of the harmony of things and of the spatial dimensions in which that harmony could be felt. None of that remained. The hills rose up steep and abruptly now, menacing, threatening to drag the lonesome soul down into vertiginous depths. The Starry Night has risen to the peak of artistic achievements. Although Van Gogh sold only one painting in his whole life, "Starry Night" is an icon of modern art, the Mona Lisa for our time.

As Leonardo da Vinci evoked a Renaissance ideal of serenity and self-control, Van Gogh defined how we see our own age - wracked with solitude and uncertainty.

Although the series depicts various times of day and night and different weather conditions, all the works include the line of rolling hills in the distance.

It is absolutely everywhere, too. It can be seen on coffee, mugs, t-shirts, towels, magnets, etc. It is a magnificent piece of art. That Starry Night resonates with so many people is a testament to how its beauty is timeless and universal. Van Gogh lived well in the hospital; he was allowed more freedoms than any of the other patients. If attended, he could leave the hospital grounds; he was allowed to paint, read, and withdraw into his own room. He was even given a studio.

While he suffered from the occasional relapse into paranoia and fits - officially he had been diagnosed with epileptic fits - it seemed his mental health was recovering. Unfortunately, he relapsed. He left out the iron bars. The village was more creative license than reality. The Starry Night may be about mortality. This was not Van Gogh's first Starry Night. Van Gogh considered The Starry Night a "failure.

Van Gogh unknowingly painted Venus. Van Gogh sold only one or two paintings in his life—and neither was The Starry Night. The Starry Night was twice owned by Theo's widow. The lights of The Starry Night seem to flicker because of how the human brain works. These unfortunate men were made to walk more than a thousand kilometres back to the Soviet Union.

The emaciated and exhausted men plodded on foot, carrying their meagre possessions and unaware their ultimate fate. Baldin followed behind on a tractor, his precious suitcase hugged close to him as he slept. When Baldin eventually reached his home in Zagorsk he unlocked the suitcase for the first time. Baldin kept the drawings at home for three years and then handed them over to the Museum of Russian Architecture, where he worked as a young curator. He felt that the fragile artworks should be looked after by a museum.

Communism began to falter and in the uncertain days of the KGB security agency ordered that the drawings should be secretly moved from the architectural museum to the Hermitage.

When I met Piotrovsky in he told me of plans to exhibit the Baldin drawings and there was a display later that year and then in Moscow. The short displays were his response. During my visit to Moscow, I asked Tatyana Nikitina, the culture minister, what should happen to the Bremen drawings.