Behind the Art: Is Vincent van Gogh’s ‘The Red Vineyard’ the only known painting sold in his lifetime?

Vincent van Gogh is a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter and well-proclaimed artist who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings and several hundreds of sketches. Yet he only managed to sell one painting during his lifetime — The Red Vineyards at Arles, for a mere 400 francs (about $2,000 today) at a Brussels…