Nu Art Royle Christmas and Holiday Greeting Card XNUN9036HA "Starry Night over the Rhone River" Size 8.25" x 5.875" This is a top fold card. Select a standard greeting or compose the text to be printed inside the card in your choice of typestyle and ink color. Up to 14 lines of text can be printed. Please note that the size of the type will be determined by the number of lines to be printed.

Shown with verse 755, type SRH and ink Blue.

The back of this card reads: Starry Night over the Rhone River by Vincent van Gogh (1835-90) Reunion des Musees Nationaux / Art Resource, NY

Painter, born in Groot-Zundert, The Netherlands. At 16, he worked in an art dealer's, then as a teacher, and became an evangelist at Le Borinage (1878-80). In 1881 he went to Brussels to study art and settled at The Hague, where he produced his early drawings and watercolours. At Nuenen he painted his first masterpiece, a domestic scene of peasant poverty, 'The Potato Eaters' (1885, Amsterdam). He studied in Paris (1886-8), where he developed his individual style of brushwork and a more colorful palate. At Arles, the Provencal landscape gave him many of his best subjects, such as "Sunflowers" (1888, Tate, London) and 'The Bridge' (1888, Cologne). He showed increasing signs of mental disturbance (after a quarrel woth Gauguin, he cut off part of his own ear), and was placed in an asylum at St Remy (1889-90). He then stayed at Auvers-sur-Oise, where at the scene of his last painting "Cornfields with Flights of Birds" (1890, Amsterdam) he shot himself, and died two days later. One of the pioneers of Expressionism, he used colour primarily for its emotive appeal, and profoundly influenced the Fauves and other experimenters of 20th-c art.

Also available as blank stock for customer imprinting. These cards will be totally blank inside. They do not come with any standard greeting imprinted on them.

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