Starry Night Over the Rhone by Van Gogh Size:XL - 84.1 x 118.9cm (A0) Where earlier works in the

Where earlier works in the sequence feel emergent

This is Art Nouveau as a complete belief system

dynamic colour blocking

and soft violets emerge from a deep

the palette cooled to near-monochrome

Starry Night Over the Rhone by Van Gogh Size:XL - 84.1 x 118.9cm (A0) Where earlier works in theStarry Night Over the Rhone predates its more famous sibling by nearly a year, painted in Arles in September 1888. Where the later work churns with interior urgency, this one holds a different quality expansive, almost tender. Gas lamps from the city bank stretch luminous reflections across the river's dark surface, and above, the Great Bear constellation wheels in a sky of deep Prussian blue. Two figures walk at the water's edge. Van Gogh's brushwork