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Article: RECORD PRICE FOR VAN GOGH'S 'IRISES'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 12, 1987
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NEW YORK - Vincent van Gogh's "Irises," the famous
depiction of a flower garden at an asylum the painter entered
shortly before he committed suicide, sold Wednesday for a record
$53.9 million.
The identity of the buyer, who bid by telephone, was not
immediately disclosed.
The previous record for a painting was set by another van
Gogh masterpiece, "Sunflowers," which sold for $39.9 million
earlier this year to a Japanese insurance company.
"The whole world is looking very closely at the sale of this
painting," John L. Marion, chairman of Sotheby's North America,
where the "Irises" auction was held, had said earlier. "Some see it
as an indicator of what the art market is doing."
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