Vincent van Gogh's iconic painting 'The Starry Night' out for special analysis at MoMA

‘ Starry Night’ painting created by Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh was recently sent for a special analysis at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). spectacular oil-on-canvas painting was created back in 1889 and has been gracing fifth floor of New York Museum. However, late on Friday, MoMA anunced that painting was recently analysed by a senior paintings conservator to confirm that all paint layers are stable and intact.

disclosure comes as Museum said that y would be relocating painting to a new location post analysis. According to current infrastructure plan of museum, Gogh’s painting sits at  fifth floor of museum building- in section housing collections from 1880s till 1940s. tably, alteration in painting’s location comes as a part of MoMA’s Fall reveal 2021 which is an initiative to coalesce paintings in different combinations twice a year.

“ painting’s new home in Gallery 502 is dedicated to a 1931 bequest of over 150 works from Lillie P. Bliss, one of three intrepid women who founded MoMA. An vocate for modern art, Bliss h sought out work of mostly late-nineteenth-century French artists whose rical approaches to color, , and form were controversial at time,” American museum revealed.

Gogh created  painting while at a mental asylum

Vincent Van Gogh painted ' Starry Night' in June 1889 while recovering from a mental illness and his ear amputation. "Inspired by view from his window at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy, in sourn France, where artist spent twelve months in 1889–90 seeking reprieve from his mental illnesses,  Starry Night (me in mid-June) is both an exercise in observation and a clear departure from it," according to a description by MoMA. 

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