Vincent van Gogh

On March 31, 1987 Japanese insurance magnate Yasuo Goto paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for Van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London.

It is not possible to assess the value of a work of art until it is up for sale. Yet you might be interested to know that the most expensive van Gogh painting sold at auction cost over $71 million.

the value is so much that you can't determine it

That would be Vincent Van Gogh, according to legend.

However, there is no evidence that he actually cut his own ear off.

In fact, in recent times there is new historic evidence that suggests that it was cut off in an argument by a French artist called Paul Gauguin.

See related link for the historian's new account.

It was certainly important, you can sense it in his unbridled way of expressing his feelings.

In 1990 his painting Portrait of Dr Gachet was sold for 82.5 million dollars.

most famous painting 'the potato eaters'

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Nothing I have tells the cause of his depression, but he was under medical help for it. Depression wasn't understood the way it is today and it is only recently that it has been realized that in some cases there are chemical imbalances in the body that result in depression.

There is no exact answer available. It seems, though, that in the last few weeks of his life he averaged 2 paintings every 3 days!

well when Van Gogh was alive he sold only one painting, and it was the 'The Red Vineyard' and was sold for 400 Francs, or $1,600, to Anna Boch, the sister of the Belgian painter Eugene Boch, whose portrait Vincent had painted earlier.

He borrowed it from a farmer nearby.

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The paintings from van Gogh's last few years were painted with clearly visible brush strokes, sometimes rather short. For a short period he used dots rather than brush strokes, i.e. pointillistc painting.

Picasso first visited Paris in 1900, but did not settle there pemanently until 1904.

Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853

Vincent became an artist in 1880 when he stopped being a teacher. Then he did your mum up the place were the sun dont shine !

People didn't come to absolutely love Van Gogh's paintings until after his death. During his life time the only painting he ever sold was to his brother Theo.

which was the sunflower painting because his brother Theo wanted to give it to his true love.

He changed the history of Art by being an inspiration for Expressionism.

The right ear of Vincent van Gogh is bandaged.

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At least it looks as if this is the case, but in fact he cut off the lower half of his left ear, and the self portrait is composed in a mirror.

Yes! in fact people then loved his artwork and sculptures. He was quite famous back then and is still famous now.

I think he says that the world is beautiful and frightening.

Vincent Van Gogh Died on July 29 1890. He died from a gun shot. NO one knew who fired the shot. Some people thinks Vincent killed himself, some thinks that he had been shot accidentely from a boy in a town