
A visually impaired person feels the raised pattern outlines of the fields and clouds on a 3D copy of ‘Wheatfield Under Cloudy Sky’ while another person touches a copy of the painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh during a touch-session at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. ‘Feeling Van Gogh’ is a program for the blind and visually impaired and their sighted friends and carers. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
NEW YORK (AP) — A landscape Vincent van Gogh created a year before his death will lead So the by’s impressionist and modern art sale in New York this fall.
“Landscape Under a Stormy Sky,” painted in 1889, depicts a field in Arles in the south of France.
It’s estimated to bring $50 million to $70 million. The auction record for a van Gogh is $82.5 million.
Last year Sotheby’s sold another Arles landscape by the artist for $66.3 million.
The Nov. 5 sale also includes Pablo Picasso’s “Nude With Crossed Legs.” The 1903 pastel was created during the artist’s Blue Period. It has a presale estimate of $8 million to $12 million
The two paintings are among a group of late 19th and early 20th century works from Belgian collectors Louis and Evelyn Franck.
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