Vic: Whiteley portrait of Van Gogh sells for $1.02m

AAP General News (Australia)
08-30-2007
Vic: Whiteley portrait of Van Gogh sells for $1.02m

MELBOURNE, Aug 30 AAP - A portrait of Dutch painting master Vincent Van Gogh by Australian
Brett Whiteley sold for $1.02 million at an auction in Melbourne yesterday.

Vincent, which depicts Van Gogh just after he cut off his ear with a razor, was sold
to an absentee bidder by auction house Deutscher and Hackett in South Yarra for $850,000
($1.02 million including the buyer's premium).

There were only two bidders for the work.

Bearing Gifts, a work by Sydney artist Del Kathryn Barton, sold at the same sale for
$138,000, almost trebling her record sale price.

An Arthur Streeton landscape - North Shore, Sydney - sold for above expectations for
$372,000. It had been estimated it would sell for around $180,000 to $240,000.

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KEYWORD: WHITELEY

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