Focus on Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy (Van Gogh series) and discuss the Interest in van Gogh's work builds.
While in Saint-Remy interest began to build in van Gogh's work:
Theo, Van Gogh's brother, wrote in July 1889, that Camille and Lucien Pissarro, Père Tanguy, Erik Theodor Werenskiold and Octave Maus, secretary of the Les XX group in Brussels, had seen the paintings that he'd made in southern France.  On Van Gogh's behalf, Theo accepted an offer from Maus to exhibit Van Gogh's work at the Les XX group's upcoming exhibition.
Van Gogh's Starry Night over the Rhone and The Irises were exhibited at the Société des Artistes Indépendants on the third of September.
In January 1890 six of Van Gogh's works were exhibited at the seventh exhibition of Les XX in Brussels along with, among others, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Signac and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.  Van Gogh's painting The Red Vineyard was sold to artist Anna Boch at the exhibition for 400 francs.
In the same month an article is published "Les Isole: Vincent van Gogh" in the Mercure de France.
Ten of Van Gogh's works were presented at the March 1890 Société des Artistes Indépendants. Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, and Pissarro were quite impressed with his works.Over this time, though, Van Gogh's health ebbed and flowed between periods of attacks, recovery, and resumption of painting. In April 1890, near the end of van Gogh's stay at Saint-Paul's hospital, Theo wrote to his sister and mother, "I am so pleased that Vincent's work is being more appreciated.  If he were fit I believe that there would be nothing for me to desire, but it appears that this is not to be."The sale of Red Vineyard was the only sale of van Gogh's paintings made during his lifetime.
Paul Signac Theo interest Camille The Red Vineyard Paul Cézanne southern France The Irises Octave Maus Camille Pissarro Les XX Anna Boch Société des Artistes Indépendants moth Paul Gauguin Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Claude Monet Vincent van Gogh Mercure de France Pierre-Auguste Renoir Erik Theodor Werenskiold Père Tanguy Starry Night over the Rhone