Which painting by Van Gogh was sold at auction by Christie's of London for £24,750,000 in 1987?
"his visit was ""Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers"". Van Gogh and Gauguin visited Montpellier in December 1888, where they saw works by Courbet and Delacroix in the Musée Fabre. Their relationship began to deteriorate; Van Gogh admired Gauguin and wanted to be treated as his equal, but Gauguin was arrogant and domineering, which frustrated Van Gogh. They often quarrelled; Van Gogh increasingly feared that Gauguin was going to desert him, and the situation, which Van Gogh described as one of ""excessive tension"", rapidly headed towards crisis point. The exact sequence of events which led to Van Gogh's mutilation of his ear"
"the 1987 auction of one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings at Christie's, a famed London art business. The painting sells for millions of pounds. The film then cuts to scenes that take place in the period from 1883 through 1891, commencing with Vincent van Gogh's decision to work exclusively as an artist, and concluding with his death and that of his brother Theo a few months later. The film is a double portrait of both men; Noel Murray has summarised this aspect, ""Altman and screenwriter Julian Mitchell contrast Theo's life—which mostly consists of him guiding rich people through galleries and"
"the most expensive painting ever sold, setting a record which stood for two and a half years. Then it was sold for US$53.9 million to Alan Bond, but Bond did not have enough money to pay for it. ""Irises"" was later re-sold in 1990 to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. ""Irises"" is currently (as of 2012) tenth on the inflation-adjusted list of most expensive paintings ever sold and in 25th place if the effects of inflation are ignored. Irises (painting) Irises is one of several paintings of irises by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, and one"
"work as far as it can go."" Roger Ebert wrote ""here is Robert Altman's ""Vincent and Theo"", another film that generates the feeling that we are in the presence of a man in the act of creation."" ""Vincent & Theo"" opens with historical footage of the March 1987 auction at Christie's of Vincent van Gogh's painting ""Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers"" for a record-breaking price. The later scene of Vincent van Gogh attempting to paint sunflowers a century before the auction has been noted by several critics. Peter Rainer wrote in 1990 that ""The scene where he destroys his canvasses in"
"the painting attracted bids of up to £29 million, but it ultimately failed to sell. On 6 May 2014, one of the Water Lilies paintings was auctioned at Christie's, New York City for $27 million.[16] This auction totaled $141 millon with the Monet piece Le bassin aux nymphéas being auctioned for $27 million of this amount. In June of 2014, one of the Water Lilies, ""Nymphéas"", sold for $54 million USD at a Sotheby's auction in London. This piece was auctioned to an anonymous buyer, but the piece went on to be part of the exhibition ""Painting the Modern Garden:"
"sale and a record price for a Hockney. This was topped in 2016 when his ""Woldgate Woods"" landscape made £9.4 million at auction. The record was broken again in 2018 with the sale of ""Piscine de Medianoche"" (""Paper Pool 30)"" for $11.74 million and then doubled in the same Sotheby's auction when ""Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica"" sold for $28.5 million. On 15 November 2018, David Hockney’s 1972 painting ""Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)"" sold at Christie’s for $90.3 million with fees, surpassing the previous auction record for a living artist of $58.4 million, held by"
"amount of interest. By that time, it set a new record for an Andy Warhol creation, being sold for $71.7 million, while the pre-auction estimate was $25 million. The record was broken in 2013, when another painting of the collection, the ""Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)"" was sold for $105.4 million. Green Car Crash Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) is a painting by the American artist Andy Warhol. On May 16, 2007 at 7 P.M, it sold for $71.7m (£42.3m) at auction. ""Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)"" is one of the representative paintings of the Pop"
"dispute the station had with the Queensland premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen by paying out A$400,000. He said in a television interview several years later that he paid because ""Sir Joh left no doubt that if we were going to continue to do business successfully in Queensland then he expected the matter to be resolved"". In 1987, Bond purchased Vincent van Gogh's renowned painting, ""Irises,"" for $54 million—the highest price ever paid for a single painting. However, the purchase was funded by a substantial loan from the auctioneer, Sotheby's, which Bond failed to repay. The transaction was criticised by art dealers as"
"not paint things as they are ... [T]hey paint them as ""they themselves"" feel them to be."" Van Gogh's works are among the world's most expensive paintings. Those sold for over US$100 million (today's equivalent) include ""Portrait of Dr Gachet"","" "" and ""Irises"". The Metropolitan Museum of Art's version of ""Wheat Field with Cypresses"" was acquired in 1993 for US$57 million. In 2015 ""L'Allée des Alyscamps"" sold for US$66.3 million at Sotheby's, New York, exceeding its reserve of US$40 million. Van Gogh's nephew and namesake, Vincent Willem van Gogh (1890–1978), inherited the estate after his mother's death in 1925. During"
"solo exhibitions, including at Tate Liverpool, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. In June 2014 the oil on canvas painting """"The Fake Rothko"" was"" sold for £1,426,000 ($2,428,140). In February 2016, the large oil on canvas painting ""The Sunflowers of 1937"" inspired by Vincent van Gogh's famous ""Sunflowers"" was sold in London for £3,177,000 at a Sotheby's auction, marking it the most expensive painting sold by the Romanian artist. Before the auction, the value of the painting was estimated between £400,000 and £600,000 . It belonged to the Galerie Judin of Berlin, who had"
"1993 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for $57 million using funds donated by publisher, diplomat and philanthropist Walter Annenberg. The National Gallery in London holds a similar version painted in Van Gogh's studio in September 1889, bought with the Courtauld Fund in 1923. It is unlined, and was never varnished or waxed. The third smaller version is held by a private collection (sold at Sotheby's in London in 1970; in the US in 1987). Wheat Field with Cypresses A Wheatfield with Cypresses is any of three similar 1889 oil paintings by Vincent van Gogh, as part"
"soon fell into oblivion after his death. However, since the early 1980s, Bauernfeind was gradually rediscovered, with his paintings appearing at auctions with high prices. Thus, his oil painting ""The Wailing Wall"" was sold at Christie's in London for the equivalent of €326,000 in 1992. The same painting would reach at Sotheby's in London the equivalent of €4.5 million in a later auction in 2007. In 1997, another oil painting of Bauernfeind, ""The Port of Jaffa"", was sold at the Van Ham Kunstauktionen in Cologne for 1,510,000 DM, thus becoming the most expensive 19th-century painting ever sold in Germany. At"
"the fear and horror of madness that I used to have has already lessened a great deal. And though here you continually hear terrible cries and howls like beasts in a menagerie, in spite of that people get to know each other very well and help each other when their attacks come on."" ""Portrait of Dr. Gachet"" is one of the most revered paintings by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh of Dr. Paul Gachet, who took care of him in his last months. In 1990, it fetched a record price of $82.5 million ($75 million, plus a 10 percent buyer's"
"him, though he considered the doctor to be in a worse state than himself. Gachet befriended Van Gogh and was the subject of two portraits, one of which, ""Portrait of Dr. Gachet"", was sold at auction for over $80m (£48m) in 1990. Van Gogh died by a gunshot to the chest. The room on the upper floor of the Auberge Ravoux where he died has been preserved, although no furniture remains. Auvers-sur-Oise is the final resting place of both Vincent and his brother Theo van Gogh, who died six months later. Auvers-sur-Oise is served by two stations on the Transilien"
"August 2007. It was recovered in June 2008. Monet's ""Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil"", an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris, was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder for a record $41.4 million at Christie's auction in New York on 6 May 2008. The previous record for his painting stood at $36.5 million. Just a few weeks later, ""Le bassin aux nymphéas"" (from the water lilies series) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 auction in London, lot 19, for £36,500,000 ($71,892,376.34) (hammer price) or £40,921,250 ($80,451,178) with fees, nearly doubling the record"
"and when inflation is ignored, the bronze also broke the record price for an art work sold at auction which, since 2004, was held at $104.2 million (then £58.2 m) by Pablo Picasso's ""Garçon à la pipe"". The most expensive work of art sold at a public auction remained Van Gogh's ""Portrait of Dr. Gachet"", which was bought in May 1990 for $82.5 million (approx. $138.4 million in CPI-adjusted 2010 US dollars), while Jackson Pollock's ""No. 5, 1948"", which was privately sold for $140 million in 2006 (approx. $151 million in 2010 dollars), remained the most expensive work of art"
"the first version was sold at auction for $82.5 million ($ million today), a new mark for the highest ever price for a painting, not surpassed until June 2006 by Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. In late 1888, Van Gogh began to experience a mental breakdown, cutting off part of his ear. He stayed in hospital for a month, but was not fully healed and in April 1889 he checked himself into an asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where he remained for a year. When he was released in 1890, Van Gogh's brother Theo was searching for a home for the artist"
"with green books. But in the copy that Theo has, the clothing is pink, the background yellowy-white, and the front of the open bodice is muslin in a white that merges into green. Among all these light colours, only the hair, the eyelashes and the eyes form black patches."" On 2 May 2006, the painting with the floral background sold at auction at Christie's, New York, for more than $40million (USD). This was the version that Vincent gave to Theo. Gauguin produced a charcoal sketch at the original sitting of Madame Ginoux in November 1888, and later produced a canvas."
"resemble Vincent Van Gogh's ""Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers (1888), viewable from a platform and watched over by a security guard and surveillance cameras. Created in response to the £22.5m sale of the Van Gogh original, Brett described Finn-Kelcey's work as 'an argument in the form of an object. No words are necessary.' Whilst she has been described as 'one of the most imaginative and inventive artists of her generation', and 'central' to the emerging artistic communities to which her work contributed, Finn-Kelcey never had a solo exhibition in any of the major public galleries in London (with the"
"Wool's top ten auction sales. At Christie's London in February 2012, ""Untitled"" (1990), a later word painting bearing the broken word FOOL, sold for £4.9 million ($7.7 million). In November 2013, art dealer Christophe van de Weghe bought ""Apocalypse Now"" (1988) for $26.4 million on behalf of a client at Christie's New York. Wool's monumental black and white word painting ""Riot"" (1990) sold for $29.9 million at Sotheby's New York in 2015. That same month, ""Untitled"" (1990), made with alkyd and graphite on paper and featuring the words 'RUN DOG EAT DOG RUN', realized $2.4 million, the record for a"
"of the Société des Artistes Indépendants in September 1889, together with ""Starry Night Over the Rhone"". He wrote to Vincent of the exhibition: ""[It] strikes the eye from afar. The ""Irises"" are a beautiful study full of air and life."" The painting is one of his most renowned works. The first owner was Julien ""Père"" Tanguy, a paint grinder and art dealer whose portrait van Gogh painted three times. In 1892 Tanguy sold ""Irises"" to art critic and anarchist Octave Mirbeau who was also one of Van Gogh's first supporters. Mirbeau paid 300 francs for it. In 1987, it became"
"famous of his works and the most parodied portrait, and ""The Last Supper"" is the most reproduced religious painting of all time. His drawing of the ""Vitruvian Man"" is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on items as varied as the euro coin, textbooks, and T-shirts. His painting ""Salvator Mundi"" sold for $450.3 million at a Christie's auction in New York on 15 November 2017, the highest price ever paid for a work of art. Perhaps 15 of his paintings have survived. Nevertheless, these few works compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivalled only by that"
"drawings repaired: On 7 February 2005, the drawing was sold at Christie's in London for £680,000. On 20 June 2012, the drawing fetched £1,329,250 at the same auction house. Van Gogh was influenced especially by the social realism of the English illustrators, such as Hubert von Herkomer, Samuel Luke Fildes, and Frank Holl, working for ""The Graphic"", a British weekly illustrated newspaper founded by the social reformer William Luson Thomas. Van Gogh frequently referred to them in his letters, and he had obtained a complete set of back numbers of ""The Graphic"" between 1870 and 1880, decorating his studio with"
"at auction. When inflation is taken into account, a higher price was reached at the same auction house for Van Gogh's ""Portrait of Dr. Gachet"", which in 1990 sold for $ million current dollars. Bacon's triptych did surpass the constant dollar record of $119.9 million set by the fourth version of Edvard Munch's ""The Scream"" in May 2012. The 2013 sale also represents the highest price paid for a work by a British or Irish artist, beating Bacon's ""Triptych 1976"", which fetched $86.3 million in May 2008. Three Studies of Lucian Freud Three Studies of Lucian Freud is a 1969"
"described how he ""fell in love"" with Constable's style as a young child. In his twenties, Thomson stunned the art world with two monumental purchases. In 1984, he acquired J. M. W. Turner's spectacular 'Seascape: Folkestone"", for a record £7.3 million (£21.8 million in 2017) from the sale of the collection of noted British art historian Kenneth Clark. The following year, Thomson, 27, broke another world record when he bought Rembrandt's monumental ""Christ Presented to the People"", from 1655, for a record £561,000 (£1.7 million in 2017) at Christie's London, when the Duke of Devonshire sold the Chatsworth Collection in"
"$1,325,000 in 2016, and ""Walls of Babylon"" in 2001 for £168,750. The Colossus of Rhodes (Dalí) The Colossus of Rhodes is a 1954 oil painting by Salvador Dalí. It is one of a series of seven paintings he created for the 1956 movie ""Seven Wonders of the World"", each depicting one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and shows the Colossus of Rhodes, the ancient statue of the Greek titan-god of the sun, Helios. It was never used for the film, and in 1981 was donated by Georges F. Keller to its present location, the Kunstmuseum Bern. Dalí's"
"at Sotheby's, New York on November 11, 1987. While it is uncertain whether Yasuo Goto bought the painting himself or on behalf of his company, the Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Japan, the painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. After the purchase, a controversy arose whether this is a genuine van Gogh or an Émile Schuffenecker forgery. Two Paris versions van Gogh exchanged with Gauguin in December 1887 or January 1888, were both sold to Ambroise Vollard: one in January 1895 and the other in April 1896. The first canvas"
"over something that is outside the canvas. Happy Tears (Roy Lichtenstein) Happy Tears is a 1964 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein. It formerly held the record for highest auction price for a Lichtenstein painting. On November 13, 2002, ""Happy Tears"" surpassed ""Kiss II"", which had sold for $6.0 million in May 1990, by selling for $7.1 million at Christie's auction house in New York. In November 2005, the 1963 work ""In the Car"" surpassed ""Happy Tears""' Lichtenstein work record auction price, when it sold for $16.2 million. ""Happy Tears"" was acquired at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, in"
"continued to suffer from similar fits, sometimes characterized by acute paranoia. At the time of Van Gogh’s death, this painting was in the possession of Julien (Père) Tanguy, although it was unclear how he had obtained it. Tanguy had posed twice for Van Gogh in 1887. It was exhibited in Paris 1901 and 1905 in a major Van Gogh retrospective. In 1928 Samuel Courtauld purchased it. It is currently located in The Courtauld Gallery in London, UK. Some critics dismiss this painting as a fake or crude pastiche. However, if this were true it would have been painted at a"
"of the harsh reality of life in the working class. He also simply admired the sustainability of the potato, or ""aardappel"" in Dutch. ""Aardappel"" literally translates to ""earth apple,"" which paints an idea of a simpler, hearty lifestyle. Thieves stole the early version of ""The Potato Eaters,"" the ""Weaver's Interior"", and ""Dried Sunflowers"" from the Kröller-Müller Museum in December, 1988. In April 1989, the thieves returned ""Weaver's Interior"" in an attempt to gain a $2.5 million ransom. The police recovered the other two on July 14, 1989; no ransom was paid. On April 14, 1991, the Vincent van Gogh National"
"Gogh’s ""Portrait of Doctor Gachet"" sold for $82.5 million. In November 2013, $142.4 million was paid for the 1969 triptych, ""Three Studies of Lucian Freud"", by Francis Bacon. The highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction was Pablo Picasso's ""Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O)"" (Women of Algiers) that was sold by Christie's in May 2015 for $179.4 million. Sotheby's and Christie's has become major dealers of Chinese porcelain antiques. As of 2016, some of the best collections had been auctioned for tens of millions US Dollars, through Sotheby's and Christie's. In the 21st Century, and especially since 2010,"
"the sale at auction of ""Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-Lad, and a Jockey"" (1765) at Christie's in London in July 2011 for £22.4 million. It was sold by the British Woolavington Collection of sporting art; the buyer was unidentified. The British Royal Collection holds 16 paintings by Stubbs. Two paintings by Stubbs were bought by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London after a public appeal to raise the £1.5 million required. The two paintings, ""The Kongouro from New Holland"" and ""Portrait of a Large Dog"" were both painted in 1772. Depicting a kangaroo and a"
"The Starry Night The Starry Night is an oil on canvas by the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an idealized village. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. Regarded as among Van Gogh's finest works, ""The Starry Night"" is one of the most recognized paintings in the history of Western culture. In the aftermath of"