van Gogh Painting Is Star During Sotheby’s Auction Self-Portrait as a Painter,Factories, Roses, Pine Trees at Sunset,

Van Gogh Painting Is Star During Sotheby’s Auction

The auction took in a total of $368 million, the second-highest sale of Impressionist and modern art in Sotheby’s history.

Art of the Day: Van Gogh, Red Chestnuts in the Public Park at Arles, April 1889. Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 92.0 cm. Private collection.

Art of the Day: Van Gogh, Self-Portrait as a Painter, Dec 1887-Feb 1888. Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 50 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Art of the Day: Van Gogh, Factories Seen from a Hillside in Moonlight, early 1887. Oil on canvas, 21.0 x 46.5 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) | Roses | 1890

Art of the Day: Van Gogh, Pine Trees at Sunset, November 1889. Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.

Vincent van Gogh died ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1890. Here's a print of his only known etching http://ow.ly/zxFNV

Art of the Day: Van Gogh, Self-Portrait, Summer 1887. Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 33.6 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.