“Starry Night Over the Rhone,” exemplifies the artistic genius of Dutch Grand Master Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890) through its dramatic expression capturing the nighttime nuances of color and shadow. The night sky and the effects of light at night were subjects of many of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings. He also relished painting outdoors, and the uplifting effect nature had upon his fragile psyche. Van Gogh was an astoundingly prolific artist who produced his formidable body of work in a mere 10 years, at one point creating 150 paintings and drawings within a single year. Selling only one painting in his lifetime, Van Gogh later profoundly influenced modern Expressionism, Fauvism and early Abstraction.