Word: gogh
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...finds such highly publicized exhibits disturbing, arguing that they determine when particular artists are discussed. Following a recent Van Gogh exhibit, he says, "all of a sudden everyone was talking about Van Gogh. We're really being manipulated." In his opinion art should be viewed in a conscious and concentrated setting...
...sale will be open to telephone bidders worldwide, but no specific offerings have been announced. It will take one of the sale's more expensive properties to beat Christie's fine-arts record: the $39.9 million a Van Gogh painting brought last March...
Three months after a Japanese insurance company paid $39.9 million for Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers, the overheated art market shows few signs of cooling off. At Christie's London auction house last week, another Van Gogh work, The Bridge at Trinquetaille, was sold in just two tense minutes of bidding for $20.2 million, the second highest price paid for a painting at an auction. The 29-in. by 36-in. Bridge, painted in 1888 when Van Gogh lived in Arles, was sold by the family of New York Banker Siegfried Kramarsky, who bought the painting in 1932. The buyer...
...graduate student in art history, I must take exception to the response to your article on the auctioning of Van Gogh's Sunflowers ((LETTERS, May 4)). A reader states that "paintings were meant to be enjoyed by individuals with taste and an understanding of the artist's talent. They were not meant to be viewed by hundreds of schoolchildren being shooed past canvas-laden museum walls on the way to the cafeteria." The attitude displayed here is one of blatant elitism, which not only equates the enjoyment of art with a certain level of education but also implies that "taste...
...that account, the Tokyo firm spent about 1% of its fiscal 1985 revenues for the painting, known in Japanese as Himawari. Starting early next year, Yasuda hopes to send the work on a tour of several Japanese cities. Then the Van Gogh will join two Renoirs and a gaggle of Grandma Moses oils in a 450- piece art museum that occupies a floor in Yasuda's Tokyo headquarters...