Van Gogh Might Fetch $35m

Bloomberg reports that Sotheby's aims to raise as much as $35 million in New York in November for the owner of a Vincent van Gogh landscape painting that has hung in art museums for the past six years. The blue-skied "The Fields (Wheat Fields)" was painted in France's Auvers-sur-Oise during the last weeks of the artist's life in the summer of 1890, according to a Sotheby's. The unidentified owner loaned it to Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum from 2001 until this year, when it went on show in Madrid. The last Van Gogh landscape on the market fetched about $27 million in 1995."The Fields" goes on show in Hong Kong and London next month before being offered in New York on Nov. 7. (For full source and full article click the Headline). Irish Art