2023 Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat (Van Gogh Museum promo, SVP 085)

The Van Gogh Pikachu is the Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat, promo card 085 in the Scarlet & Violet Black Star Promos, first handed out on September 28, 2023 in a Pokémon collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. On November 11, 2026, PriceCharting put an ungraded copy at $958.51 and a PSA 10 at $2,500.00. The card shows Pikachu painted in the manner of Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat; the Pokémon TCG API credits the art to Naoyo Kimura and lists the rarity as Promo. This file covers how the card was distributed, why the museum stopped giving it out, how many copies PSA has graded and the dated sales on the public record. For the most valuable Pikachu promo of all, see the Pikachu Illustrator card file.

• Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat#085 · PromoScarlet & Violet Black Star Promos, 2023

Why the card matters

The museum ran the Pokémon celebration from September 28, 2023 to January 7, 2024 to mark its 50th anniversary and to introduce children to Van Gogh's work. The Pokémon Company's announcement adds that the art also marks 170 years since Van Gogh's birth. The painting it follows hangs in the museum: Van Gogh made it in the winter of 1887–88, after almost two years in Paris, in short strokes of complementary colours, blue against orange in the background and red against green in the beard and eyes.

Bulbapedia says the Pikachu was one of six artworks made for the collaboration and the only one printed on a card; it also notes that the card was not allowed at the 2024 Pokémon World Championships because it had not been distributed worldwide. In play it is a Basic Lightning Pokémon with 60 HP whose one attack, Pika-Portrait, searches the deck for a Pikachu and puts it onto the Bench.

How the card was given out: distribution timeline

The museum's decision came within weeks. AFP reported that resellers, described as scalpers, drove up demand, and the museum said “a small group of individuals” had created an “undesirable situation” and that it took the safety and security of visitors and staff very seriously. Fortune reported that a Pikachu stuffed toy had sold out and that the card was then listed on eBay at $70 to $485; Hypebeast put recent eBay sales at up to $180, with most around $50 to $80. Those figures are October 2023 snapshots, not today's market.

Identify a real copy in four steps

1. Read the name and number. The card is titled “Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat”, a Basic Pokémon with 60 HP, and carries promo number 085 of the SVP Black Star Promos.
2. Check the art credit: Naoyo Kimura, as the API records it.
3. Check the attack: Pika-Portrait, one Lightning Energy, searching the deck for a Pikachu to put on the Bench.
4. On a slab, verify the cert and check that the label names the same card and number; run the holder past the fake-slab red flags.

Population snapshot

PriceCharting's population page for the card, read November 11, 2026, shows counts in its PSA column only and was last updated for May 2026, when PSA had graded 111,026 copies, up from 107,122 a month earlier. Of those, 48,441 were PSA 10 and 51,681 PSA 9.

1. PSA 10: 48,441 copies
2. PSA 9: 51,681 copies
3. PSA 8: 5,579 copies
4. PSA 7: 1,355 copies
5. PSA 6: 1,961 copies
6. PSA 5: 1,258 copies
7. PSA 4: 491 copies
8. PSA 3: 182 copies
9. PSA 2: 44 copies
10. PSA 1: 34 copies

Total: 111,026 PSA-graded copies; 43.6% at PSA 10, 90.2% at PSA 9 or 10.

By the gem-rate formula on how to read a PSA pop report, 48,441 ÷ 111,026 × 100 gives 43.6%, and 90.2% of graded copies reached PSA 9 or 10, about 1.07 PSA 9s for every PSA 10. Nearly half of the graded copies are PSA 10s; whether grading a raw copy pays is worked through on is it worth grading Pokémon cards.

Prices by grade

Two oddities stand out. The ungraded summary is above the Grade 9 summary, and many of the ungraded sales PriceCharting lists are titled as cards still in their sealed promo wrapper. And a PSA 10 is worth about three times a PSA 9 here ($2,500.00 against $824.50), a gap explained on PSA 9 vs PSA 10. Raw prices also differ by source: the Pokémon TCG API showed a TCGplayer market price of $1,000.59, updated October 15, 2026.

Notable public sales

The 30 most recent PSA 10 sales PriceCharting listed, from November 3 to 10, 2026, ran from $1,825.00 for a copy graded inside its sealed wrapper to $2,624.00. Compare a copy only with sales of the same grade and grader, with dates; where to check sold prices lists the places to look.

Where the sources disagree

Quick answers

How much is the Van Gogh Pikachu worth?

As of November 11, 2026, PriceCharting's summaries were $958.51 ungraded, $824.50 for Grade 9 and $2,500.00 for PSA 10. Recent PSA 10 sales ran from $1,825.00 to $2,624.00.

What number is the Van Gogh Pikachu promo?

085 in the Scarlet & Violet Black Star Promos (SVP); the Pokémon TCG API files it as svp-85.

Can you still get the card at the Van Gogh Museum?

No. The museum stopped handing it out in October 2023, and The Pokémon Company's announcement of the February 2024 Dutch store promotion says the museum will not distribute any more of them.

Checklist

• Name and number 085 checked; artist credit Naoyo Kimura.
• Raw copies: note whether the card is still in its sealed wrapper, since listings separate the two.
• Prices compared within the same grade and grader, each with its date and venue.
• PSA counts treated as a dated snapshot (May 2026 here) that only grows.
• Before submitting a raw copy, centering measured with the centering calculator.