Portrait of Dr. Gachet

...Company, Japan. At the time of sale, it was one of the top two most expensive artworks ever sold, together with van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet, which was also purchased by Saito. Saito caused international outrage when he...

In this article: Galette, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte, Sotheby's, Paris, John Hay Whitney, and Musee d'Orsay

1988 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. 1990 - Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive...

In this article: First Coalition, British Mandate of Palestine, USS Sailfish, Arthur Bremer, Standard Oil, Johannes Kepler, United States Supreme Court, Anne Boleyn, United States Department of Agriculture, and United States

...Raine and the celebrated English architect Sir Thomas Graham Jackson. His recent copies of Van Gogh's notorious Portrait of Dr Gachet, in which he has siphoned off all of the colour of the original, replacing it with heavy black pigment,...

In this article: Mark Alexander, London, Van Gogh, Portrait of Dr Gachet, Thomas Graham Jackson, Oxford University, New College, Craig Raine, and Paul Gachet

...parties as yet unknown. The second version of the portrait is in the possession of the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France. Saltzman, Cynthia: Portrait of Dr. Gachet. The Story of a van Gogh Masterpiece: Money, Politics, Collectors, Greed, and...

In this article: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gachet, Torquato Tasso, Eugene Delacroix, Digitalis, and Paul Gauguin

...opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Centre, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for Community Values. 15 May - Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million . British Art Show at...

In this article: Portrait of Doctor Gachet and Vincent van Gogh

...price per sq.ft. (approx $1400) as buildings in the same area of suburban Paris, designed by nobody in particular. Meanwhile, Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold for an inflation adjusted price of $136 million yet a poster of similar square...

In this article: Le Corbusier, RSS, Van Gogh, Liberal arts, Inflation, Twitter, and Paris

...is. Luckily, the painting is now in safer hands at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It's almost as bad as putting Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" on the pavement for a photo op at LAX--but not quite. I swear, it's amazing anything...

In this article: Delusion, Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair, Time Magazine, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, and Irving Stone

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 1876 "Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre" sold for $78.1 million on May 17, 1990. Van Gogh's 1890 "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" sold for $82.5 million just two days earlier. Paintings have sold at auction...

In this article: Vincent van Gogh, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, High Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, New York, Revenue, Inflation, and Post-Impressionist

Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet, painted in June 1890 at Auvers-sur-Oise, during the last months of van Gogh's life before his suicide. He made two versions of the painting, which differ in color. Both are oil-on-canvas and measure...

In this article: Vincent van Gogh and Suicide

...wad ever dropped at an auction. (Nitpick alert: Adjust prices for inflation and "Dora" is actually fourth, with a van Gogh called "Portrait of Dr. Gachet," sold 16 years ago, No. 1 at today's equivalent of $116.7 million.) Predicting...

In this article: Sotheby's, Pablo Picasso, and Tyvek