Salon Entry

Paintings selected by Vincent and Theo to be exhibited while Vincent was alive. Vincent showed works at the Salon des Independants in Paris in 1888 and 1889 and at Les XX in Brussels in 1890.

Vegetable Gardens in Montmartre: La Butte Montmartre

"I’m well aware that these big, long canvases are hard to sell, but...

Vincent’s works exhibited during his lifetime

From letter 718 it emerges that Van Gogh exhibited work at the paint merchant Julien Tanguy’s...

Vegetable Gardens at Montmartre

"He himself doesn’t attach much importance to this exhibition, but here, where there...

Vase with Twelve Sunflowers

"So the last one is light on light, and will be the best,...

Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers

"I’m now on the fourth painting of sunflowers. This fourth one is...

The Starry Night

"the starry sky at last, actually painted at night, under a gas-lamp. The...

The Red Vineyard

"I myself have also finished a canvas of a vineyard, all purple and...

A View of Arles with Orchard in Blossom

"My dear Theo, Tomorrow I’ll send you a roll of canvases by goods train....

Irises

I wanted to tell you that I think I’ve done well to come...

A Corner of the Garden of St. Paul’s Hospital

"Here’s a new no. 30 canvas, commonplace again, like one of those chromos...