File:Vincent van Gogh Starry Night.jpg

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Alternative names	Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description	Dutch painter, draughtsman and printmaker
Date of birth/death	30 March 1853	29 July 1890
Location of birth/death	Zundert	Auvers-sur-Oise
Work period	between circa 1880 and circa July 1890
Work location	Netherlands ( Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886), Paris (from 1886 until 1887), Arles (from 1888 until 1889), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (from 1889 until 1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
Authority control	WorldCat

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Vincent van Gogh's painting Starry Night. Taken from the file below, and minimally adjusted to eliminate some over-intensity, and yellowing and attempt to bring out the true nature of the colours ie Prussian blue, Ultramarine, Cobalt and Cerulean blues all occur in the sky. Burnt Siena brown in the tree, and Crimson on the stripy house. These colours are lost in auto-digital corrections.

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