Starry Night
⭐ A masterpiece by Vincent Van Gogh ⭐
In the summer of 1888 Van Gogh wrote to his brother :
" Just as we take the train to go to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to go to a star.
What’s certainly true in this argument is that alive, we cannot go to a star,
any more than once dead we’d be able to take the train.
So it seems to me not impossible that cholera, the stone, consumption, cancer are
celestial means of locomotion, just as steamboats, omnibuses and the railway are terrestrial ones.
die peacefully of old age would be to go there on foot."
The following summer, as a patient in the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in Provence, he painted " The Starry Night " , his best known work.
A year later, he was dead of a gunshot wound to the abdomen, commonly believed to be self-inflicted.