What is the highest price paid for a Van Gogh?

Portrait of Dr Paul Gachet still holds the record for the most expensive Van Gogh, although it sold as long ago as 1990. At Christie's it fetched $83m, then the highest auction price for a work by any artist. With inflation, it would be equivalent to $180m today. So why did it make the record price?
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What was the most expensive Van Gogh sold at auction?

Portrait du Docteur Gachet

The portrait of doctor Paul Gachet, who took care of the artist in the final years of his life, was sold to a private collector for the record price of $75 million in 1990 at Christie's in New York thus making it the most expensive van Gogh painting ever sold.
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What is the most a Van Gogh painting has sold for?

A landscape by Vincent van Gogh sold for $117 million, topping a global auction record for the artist that had been set more than 30 years ago. The painting in question,Verger avec Cyprès (1888), depicts a pastel-hued spring day. It's part of an auction at Christie's of works from Paul Allen's estate.
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What is the highest price ever paid for a painting?

This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The current record price is approximately US$450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi ( c. 1500).
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What is the highest price paid for a painting by a living artist?

The highest price for a piece of art by a living artist was for Jasper Johns's 1958 painting Flag. Its private sale was thought to be $110 million USD ($137 million in 2021 dollars).
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How much is Mona Lisa worth?

The Mona Lisa is priceless. Any speculative price (some say over a billion dollars!) would probably be so high that not one person would be able or willing to purchase and maintain the painting. Moreover, the Louvre Museum would probably never sell it.
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How much is Starry Night by Van Gogh worth?

The Starry Night original painting by Vincent van Gogh, painted in 1889, is estimated to be worth over $100 million. However, this painting is one of van Gogh's masterpieces and it can also be argued that there cannot be a price for it – it is priceless.
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How much is an original Van Gogh worth?

Estimate: £450,000–550,000 ($600,000–727,000) Vincent van Gogh, Study of a Blacksmith (1882). Courtesy of Sotheby's. The earliest of the works coming to auction is Study of a Blacksmith, made between February and March of 1882.
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What was the only picture Van Gogh sold?

The Red Vineyard is among Van Gogh's most dramatically coloured Provençal landscapes, but it is also famed for being the only painting that the artist is certain to have sold. It went for 400 francs (then £16) at a Brussels exhibition in March 1890, four months before his suicide.
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Who owns the most Van Gogh?

Thanks to Kröller-Müller's avid collecting of the artist's work, the Kröller-Müller Museum is home to the second-largest collection of Van Gogh artworks in the world – behind only the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Between 1908 and 1929, Helene and Anton acquired 91 of his paintings and 180 works on paper.
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Who owns Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night?

Detail of: Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889. Van Gogh's rolling night sky full of bright stars is probably one of the world's most famous artworks. The Starry Night's home is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Who owns all the Van Gogh paintings?

Following her death in 1925, her son, Vincent Willem van Gogh ('the Engineer'), assumed responsibility for his uncle's works. In 1962, through the Kingdom of the Netherlands, he transferred control of the entire collection (the paintings, drawings and letters) to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation.
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How old was Van Gogh when he died?

Van Gogh died in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, in 1890 aged 37. The Dutch master had been staying at the Auberge Ravoux inn from where he would walk to local wheat fields to paint. It has long been thought that he shot himself in a wheat field before returning to the inn where he later died.
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How much did Starry Night sell for?

The mere fact that it's worth an estimated $100 million is proof enough of its impact on viewers. Many would even go so far as to say that the painting is priceless!
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What were Van Gogh's last words?

As he lay on his death bed, having apparently shot himself, Vincent Van Gogh is said to have uttered the final words, "The sadness will last forever".
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What was the most expensive Van Gogh painting ever sold 1987?

''Sunflowers,'' by Van Gogh. Christie's London. 1987. $39.9 million.
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How much did Van Gogh Sunflowers sell for?

How much is 'Sunflowers' worth? When Van Gogh's own copy of the original version went on auction at Christie's, as much as 40 million dollars was paid to purchase it.
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How much is the Mona Lisa worth 2022?

Mona Lisa ($860 Million)

While the price tag associated with it is hard to calculate, considering it is deemed priceless; the estimated cost for the Mona Lisa price is approximately $860 Million.
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How much is Van Gogh sunflower painting worth?

Although the famous 1888 painting has been estimated to have a value of £72.5m ($81,552m), experts believe that if it was to come back up for auction again it would likely fetch several hundred million dollars.
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How much is a real Picasso painting worth?

Pablo Picasso paintings are worth millions of dollars, ranging up into the hundreds of millions for major works. This is reflective of his place in the pantheon of great art from the 20th century. Multiple paintings have sold for hundreds of millions of dollars.
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What is the most expensive art sold in 2022?

Andy Warhol, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, 1964

Sold from The Collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann at Christie's in New York on May 9th, 2022 for $195 million, this Warhol piece is now the most expensive work of art created in the 20th century.
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How much is the Last Supper painting worth?

In 1958 it was worth $59, today $100m.
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Does someone own the rights to Van Gogh?

Van Gogh's paintings are not copyrighted now because the artist has been dead for a long time. This means that Van Gogh's paintings are now a part of the public domain.
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Is it true that Van Gogh never sold a painting?

Van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime Red Vineyard at Arles. This painting now resides at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. The rest of Van Gogh's more than 900 paintings were not sold or made famous until after his death.
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