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...confirm that the market has reached another bubble phase. It's reminiscent of the bubble that inflated in the '80s, when dealmakers such as Australia's Alan Bond and yen jillionaires like Ryoei Saito chased Van Goghs to the stratosphere. (Saito paid $82.5 million for Portrait of Dr. Gachet.) Dotcom entrepreneurs with Internet funny money bought Impressionists and Pop Art. Today a new generation of hedge-fund billionaires and Chinese and Russian kleptocrats is part of an ocean of capital flowing into galleries and auction houses. "There seem to be no limits to what people will pay, and in every...
...MILLION Vincent van Gogh Portrait of Dr. Gachet...
...million The old record price, paid by a Japanese billionaire in a 1990 auction for Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet...
...last room of the exhibit, treating the last year of the artist's life, is flurried and rushed, and once again painted in somber blue. Even the text on the wall reads like a timeline - first St.-RŽmy, then Auvers and Dr. Gachet, then suicide with a shot in the chest...
Similarly, Dr. Gachet, a crucial person in the life of van Gogh and other artists, including Pissaro, so important that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York devoted an exhibit to him a few years ago, is noted only by the inclusion of some etchings. Gachet nurtured van Gogh in his final days, but this is somehow overlooked by Face to Face, an exhibit that otherwise does an excellent job of connecting van Gogh's portraits to his personal life...