Van Gogh Painting Realises $U.S.1.3m

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32233, 27 February 1970, Page 13

Van Gogh Painting Realises $U.S.1.3m

(N .Z.V.A .-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK. February 26. A Van Gogh painting was sold in New York yesterday for a record 3USl,3oo,oo6—more than three times the price paid for any of his works previously. The bidding at the ParkeBernet galleries for the painting—“Le Cypres et L’arbre en Fleurs” —started at $250,000 Within three minutes it closed at $U51,250,000 but was reopened for the final bid bj an undisclosed buyer. The picture. and -another of Van Gogh’s works Sold at the audita,, were ; both painted while he was in a mental hospital in Saint-Remy, France.

Van Gogb used swirling and flame-like strokes of gold, green and blue in “Le Cypres.” The other painting, “Le J Laboureur,” was sold for $U5875,000. Other paintings auctioned included what a Parke-Bernet spokesman described as one of the best still lifes by Rens’ oir, “Still Life of Flowers and t- Figs,” which realised n SUS2BO,OOO. 8. Two paintings which it brought much attention were is a rare portrait by Monet of y the painter Leon Peltier, which fetched SUSI3O,OBO and ,f another Monet, a landscape of ? feathery green, lavender, and s . silvery-gold grass, which was sold for SUSI6O,OOO.