STARRY NIGHT Vincent Van Gogh 3 Oz Silver Coin 20$ Cook Islands 2015

A numismatic masterpiece, made of 3 oz of pure silver 999 with 16 authentic Swarovski crystals inlaid in this 55 mm coin. This new issue is dedicated to a famous masterpiece called Starry Night of the famous post impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh.

Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise. The coin reverse depicts a famous masterpiece of Vincent van Gogh titled "Starry Night".

On the top of the coin the inscription "Masterpieces of Art" and on the bottom of the coin the name of the artist and the issue year. Sixteen Swarovsky crystals embellish the coin, eigth on the top side and eight on the bottom side which togheter frame the painting depicted on the coin. The obverse of the coin depicts the effigy of Her Queen Elizabeth II, the inscription "Cook Islands" and the face value. Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh The Starry Night is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch post impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June, 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an idealized village.

It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. It is regarded as among Van Gogh's finest works, and one of the most recognized monuments in the history of Western culture.

Although The Starry Night was painted during the day in Van Gogh's ground-floor studio, it would be inaccurate to state that the picture was painted from memory. The view has been identified as the one from his bedroom window, facing east, a view which Van Gogh painted variations of no fewer than twenty-one times, including The Starry Night. "Through the iron-barred window, " he wrote to his brother, Theo, around 23 May 1889, I can see an enclosed square of wheat.

Above which, in the morning, I watch the sun rise in all its glory. Van Gogh depicted the view at different times of day and under various weather conditions, including sunrise, moonrise, sunshine-filled days, overcast days, windy days, and one day with rain. The hospital staff did not allow Van Gogh to paint in his bedroom, but he was able to make sketches in ink or charcoal on paper, and eventually he would base newer variations on previous versions. The pictorial element uniting all of these paintings is the diagonal line coming in from the right depicting the low rolling hills of the Alpilles mountains.

In fifteen of the twenty-one versions, cypress trees are visible beyond the far wall enclosing the wheat field. Van Gogh telescoped the view in six of these paintings, most notably in Wheat Field with Cypresses and The Starry Night, bringing the trees closer to the picture plane. One of the first paintings of the view was Mountainous Landscape Behind Saint-Rémy, now in Copenhagen, which Van Gogh identified in a letter to his sister Wil from 16 June 1889 as hanging in his studio to dry.

Two days later, he wrote to his brother that he had painted a starry sky. The Starry Night is the only nocturne painting in the series of views from his bedroom window.

In early June Vincent wrote to Theo, This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big. Two scholars working independently of each other have determined that Venus was indeed visible in Provence in the spring of 1889. So the brightest "star" in the painting, just to the viewer's right of the cypress tree, is actually Venus. The moon is stylized, as astronomical records indicate that the moon was waning gibbous at the time Van Gogh painted the picture. Even if the phase of the moon had been a waning crescent at the time, Van Gogh's moon is not astronomically correct.

For other interpretations of the moon, see below. The one pictorial element that was definitely not visible from Van Gogh's cell is the village, which is based on a sketch made from a hillside above the village of Saint-Rémy.

The item "STARRY NIGHT Vincent Van Gogh 3 Oz Silver Coin 20$ Cook Islands 2015" is in sale since Saturday, February 07, 2015. This item is in the category "Coins & Paper Money\Coins\ World\Australia & Oceania\Other Oceania Coins". The seller is "powercoin_italy" and is located in Roma. This item can be shipped worldwide.

Circulated/Uncirculated: Uncirculated
Year: 2015
Composition: Silver
Country/Region of Manufacture: Cook Islands