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Title: The Shores of Brittany Artist: Anna Boch (Belgian, 1848-1936) Date: ca. 1901 Genre: landscape Movement: Neo-Impressionism Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 108 cm (42.5 in) high x 146.5 cm (57.6 in) wide Location: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium

Anna Boch began her career as a Pointillist but later switched to Impressionism, becoming an important figure in the Neo-Impressionist movement. She was the sole female member of the Belgian artistic group Les XX. A friend and admirer of Van Gogh, she purchased The Red Vineyard, believed to be the only painting he sold during his lifetime.

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The Red Vineyards near Arles, 1888

Artist: Vincent van Gogh

Now housed at Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.

The Red Vineyards near Arles is the only painting known by name that van Gogh sold in his lifetime.

The Red Vineyard was exhibited for the first time at the annual exhibition of Les XX, 1890, in Brussels, and sold for 400 francs to Belgian painter and collector Anna Boch, a member of Les XX. Anna was the sister of Eugène Boch, another impressionist painter and a friend of Van Gogh, whose portrait van Gogh painted (Le Peintre aux Étoiles) in Arles in autumn 1888. In a later letter to his brother Theo discussing the sale, van Gogh admitted with some embarrassment that the Bochs paid the Les XX 1890 Exhibition sticker price, when in fact they probably should have gotten a "friend's price".