Introduction

Visconti is thrilled to announce the launch of a special edition Van Gogh gift set for the 2020 holiday season: The Van Gogh Old Vineyard with Peasant Woman. Available to order now in fountain pen, rollerball, and ballpoint, packaged in an exclusive gift box:
Fountain pen includes free bottle of special edition Visconti Charcoal ink.Fountain pen nib has been specially engraved with a Van Gogh style signature.

A reproduction of the painting is printed on top of the box and also on a special edition bookmark. Each pen exhibits a uniquely mixed palette of colors inspired by Van Gogh’s painting and are finished in palladium trims.

Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small quiet town just north of Paris after he left the asylum in Saint-Remy in May 1890. The painter was highly productive in Auvers and often went out into the countryside to work in the open air and paint landscapes with cottages and rural scenes.

Van Gogh began the painting of a vineyard with a pencil drawing. Then he added oil paint and watercolor in many different shades of blue. He painted some of the roofs red, but these have since faded to brown. Because he left large areas of the paper blank, the color white plays a large role in the scene. The drawing is in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.