Vincent van Gogh painted 'The Starry Night' in June 1889 from the east-facing window of his room at the asylum of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, adding the rolling village with its Gothic church spire from memory. A spiralling night sky of whirling stars and a huge crescent moon presides above a dark cypress tree that pierces the vertical of the composition. Acquired by MoMA in 1941, it has become the most reproduced painting of Vincent's entire oeuvre and one of the defining images of Western painting.

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MoMA

New York, United States

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