This Van Gogh-ing … is going … gone!
For a cool $ 15.4 million, a newly unearthed Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece that had been hidden by a French family for more than 100 years is now a new home.
The price painting, titled “A Street Scene in Montmarte”, sold during an auction from Paris on Thursday.
It smuggled excessive phone and online bids from art enthusiasts in the French capital as well as New York and Hong Kong.
Although Van Gogh’s freshly-packed tour de force went for more than $ 15 million, it initially offered a $ 16.47 million hammer.
But auction house Sotheby’s experienced an unspecified glitch in its online bidding system, forcing sellers to redo sales at the end of the event. Final – Although the lower bid was accepted.
“A Street Scene in Montmartre” – originally prepared in 1887, while the famous Dutch artist visited his brother Theo in Paris – with a windmill in front of a ramshackle house in a village on a hill on the northern outskirts A couple was shown walking in the arm. Of the city.
It is part of a series by Van Gogh that produces scenes in Montmarte, which now dominate the Sacker-Coir Church.
“Paintings of the Montmartre series are rare,” Sotheby’s impressionist and head of modern art Aureli Vandevoorde in Paris told AFP before the auction this week.
“It is likely to attract a lot of interest from private buyers, prominent Van Gogh collectors around the world, and possibly in institutions as well.”
The portrait was hidden in the private collection of an unnamed French family for over a century; However, it is unclear why collectors opted to post it on the auction block.
As of now, no information is available on the buyer.
In 2017, Van Gogh’s “Laborer in a Field” went from 1889 to $ 81 million on New York sales.
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