Today, Van Gogh's works are among the world's most expensive paintings to have ever sold, and his legacy is honoured by a museum in his name, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds the world's largest collection of his paintings and drawings.
Only a handful of Van Gogh paintings come to auction every year, but Sotheby's in New York has two on offer on 12-13 November. One is an early Dutch painting, with a relatively modest estimate for a Van Gogh work, and the other is from the artist's more sought-after Paris period.
For the largest collection of Van Gogh works, head to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam where you will see over 200 of his paintings including The Potato Eaters, Almond Blossom, Wheatfield with Crows, self-portraits, plus many of his drawings and letters.
There are 85 works in total today missing or in unknown locations. It is possible some of them still exist, but their whereabouts are not known, and they have not been seen in public for over fifty years. Six paintings have been confirmed destroyed in fires, five of those were related to the Second World War.
Throughout six centuries, the Ghent Altarpiece, also called “The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb,” has been burned, forged, and raided in three different wars. It is, in fact, the world's most stolen artwork— and is considered one of the most influential paintings ever made.
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) is best known for his Post-Impressionist paintings such as Starry Night (1889), but the three stolen and still-missing works—Poppy Flowers (1887), View of the Sea at Scheveningen (1882), and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuene (1884)—are lesser-known paintings.
It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. Widely regarded as Van Gogh's magnum opus, The Starry Night is one of the most recognizable paintings in Western art.
The Starry Night's home is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
NEW YORK (AFP) - Christie's kicked off the fall auction season in New York on Monday with a Vincent van Gogh painting leading the way at US$81.3 million (S$111 million) amid robust sales of impressionist and modern art.
Thanks to Kröller-Müller's avid collecting of the artist's work, the Kröller-Müller Museum is home to the second-largest collection of Van Gogh artworks in the world – behind only the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Between 1908 and 1929, Helene and Anton acquired 91 of his paintings and 180 works on paper.
The Starry Night original painting by Vincent van Gogh, painted in 1889, is estimated to be worth over $100 million. However, this painting is one of van Gogh's masterpieces and it can also be argued that there cannot be a price for it – it is priceless.
Starry Night series
Van Gogh made no less than 21 variations of the Starry Night under different light conditions and weather, just because he wasn't completely satisfied with the final output. In fact, in a letter to painter Émile Bernard, Van Gogh called this painting a failure.
Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night has been a visitor favorite at MoMA since it first appeared in our Van Gogh retrospective in 1935 and then was acquired in 1941.
On permanent display at the Louvre in Paris, the Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million on December 14, 1962. Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US$900 million in 2021.
What Van Gogh paintings are in the Louvre? The Van Gogh and Montmartre of Nienke Bakker. A Paris view of Van Gogh. Antwerpen and Parijs: Vincent van Gogh's paintings.
It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic. It has been on permanent display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797. The Mona Lisa is one of the most valuable paintings in the world.
$1 billion—Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night (1889)
Van Gogh made famous a stylized cypress tree in “Starry Night,” appearing in a prominent position, implying death and eventual suicide on Van Gogh's part.
In 'greatest art find in 100 years,' man discovers long-lost van Gogh masterpiece. New York collector Stuart Pivar said he rediscovered the Vincent van Gogh painting, “Auvers, 1890,” in mint condition. Pivar founded the New York Academy of Art alongside Andy Warhol in 1979.
There are 5 different versions of Sunflowers in a vase
But many people do not realise that he made multiple versions of this painting. These five artworks are now found at museums all around the world, from Tokyo to Amsterdam. In addition to these five famous versions of Sunflowers, he painted another two versions.
Bought by the Yasuda insurance firm, it is now owned by their successor Sompo, and the painting is in a museum in the company's Tokyo headquarters. In 2020, the year of the Tokyo Olympics, these two versions of Sunflowers will therefore both be on view in the Japanese capital.
LONDON (AP) _ An anonymous buyer Monday paid $39.85 million for Vincent van Gogh's ″Sunflowers,″ a dazzling yellow work the artist once hoped to sell for $125. The price was more than triple the record for an auctioned painting.