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The Red Vineyard was exhibited for the first time at the annual exhibition of Les XX, 1890 in Brussels, and sold for 400 Francs ( equal to about $ 1, 000-1, 050 today ) to Anna Boch, an impressionist painter, member of Les XX and art collector from Belgium ; Anna was the sister of Eugène Boch, another impressionist painter and a friend of Van Gogh, too, who had painted Boch's portrait ( Le Peintre aux Étoiles ) in Arles, in autumn 1888.