Vincent van Gogh Letters

White House at Night

 

van Gogh - White House at Night

June 1890 (Auvers); Oil on canvas, 59 x 72.5 cm (23 1/4 x 28 1/2"); No. 3KP 511. Formerly collection Otto Krebs, Holzdorf

van Gogh - White House at Night

Last exhibited 1924
At the end of WWII, as the Soviets pulled back from Germany, they took with them many German-owned works of art. These masterpieces were stored in the basement of the Hermitage in Leningrad, a Soviet state secret for nearly a half century. They have now been put on public exhibition. -- Mark Harden.