Van Gogh painting auctioned for more than 13 million euros

‘Scène de rue à Montmartre’, a painting by Vincent van Gogh from 1887, was auctioned on Thursday at an auction in Paris for just over 13 million euros. The street scene was sold at Sotheby’s.

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Van Gogh painted the canvasStreet scene in Montmartre in 1887. It has never been exhibited before, but it has been included in seven of the artist’s catalogs. Van Gogh made it during the period that he shared an apartment in the Parisian neighborhood of Montmartre with his brother Theo, in the rue Lepic.

The canvas shows the Moulin à Poivre in Montmartre, which was still very rural at the time, but rapidly changing. The mill disappeared in 1911.

A French collector bought the painting in 1920 and it has remained in the hands of the same family ever since. The new owner will get the canvas for 13,091,250 euros, the auction house Sotheby’s tweeted. It will be exhibited in London, Amsterdam and Paris.

The Van Gogh Museum has confirmed that the work was certainly made by Van Gogh, says Sotheby’s. The new owner has not yet been announced.

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