Which painting by Van Gogh was sold at auction by Christie's of London for £24,750,000 in 1987?
Vincent van Gogh (Russell painting) Vincent van Gogh" (1887) and Paul Gauguin's "The Painter of Sunflowers" (1888). Van Gogh seems to have been particularly attached to Russell's portrait, which the Australian gifted to him as a mark of their friendship. The painting passed from Van Gogh to his brother Theo, then to their family, and is now in the permanent collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Russell was born into a wealthy engineering family in 1858 in Sydney, New South Wales. The family business, P.N. Russell & Co, was responsible for much of the city's 19th-century ironwork. Although Russell had a strong interest
Portraits by Vincent van Gogh in White has been part of the Chester Dale Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. since 1963. The "Little Arlesienne (Head of a Girl)" is found at the Kröller-Müller Museum. See also Paintings of Children (Van Gogh series). "Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat" is an 1890 painting by Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh went on to paint several versions of this painting. The painting has changed hands several times. In 1997, Stephen Wynn paid $47.5 million for the painting. On October 7, 2005, it was announced that Stephen Wynn had sold the painting along with