Posted on 03/25/2021 1:47:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Edited on 03/25/2021 4:03:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The sale of “Street Scene in Montmartre” was highly anticipated as it was one of the few paintings by the Dutch Impressionist master to still have been in private hands. The auction house had expected it to sell for between 5 million euros and 8 million euros.
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Worth every penny.
I did a VR walk through “Starry Night” tge other day. Uber cool!
The Van Gogh Experience (not a rock group) is coming to town in June and we are definitely going!
Would love to get a big mansion, show that painting to a decorator and say, “Now design the entire interior around this work of art.”
Montmartre seems like kind of a dump back then.
I went to the Van Gogh Alive exhibition when it was in Charlotte, NC a few years ago. Very enjoyable.
He’s always been of interest to me, I suppose because of his pitiful, sad life. His paintings show his passions....some extreme, some struggling for peace. Well that’s how I see it. Never could find a Van Gogh that would fit in my house.......I’m not too fond of yellows and darker blues. Guess I could paint a room with blue and yellow and stick a print of Starry Night on the wall......just because I can......;)
Rare?
I would say that every painting is technically “rare” since its unique.
Rare? I thought it was one of a kind.
Amazing that a Van Gogh goes for 15million but some “modern” piece of crap goes for 10 times that.
Oh well. A fool and his money.....
I’m surprised they got it that cheap. It’s the kind of investment opportunity you should borrow money for.
In 5 years it’ll sell for $40mil or more.
Van Gogh’s regularly go for $40mil now, and his most expensive work sold for $75mil in 1990. At Sotheby’s.
There are lesser examples than this painting that were selling for $40mil 5 years ago.
And this is a good one.
Soon, you’ll be able to get the Lego version of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lego-van-gogh-set-1942891
Gadzooks it looks like they have masks on in the painting.
My reaction.
Does, doesn't it? I managed to plow through one of the well-reviewed giant Theo bios some years ago.
Everything the man did went to pieces, so it seemed.
What does Montmarte look like now?, asks the rube earnestly.
So what is the ‘correct’ pronunciation of his name?
Van Go?
Van Gough (rhymes with cough)?
Hmmm.... I thought Montmartre was in Paris
Loos like the sticks to me
LOL.......no thanks. I still have battle scars from when our grandson had leggos.....sometime he missed a few when putting them away but my feet found them.....;)
These are for the grown-ups.
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