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The Price of a Van Gogh
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VINCENT VAN GOGH made practically nothing off his paintings.
When he ended his unhappy life by his own hand in 1890, most of his
works were still stacked up unsold in the home of his brother, an art
dealer. This week, one of those works-a little picture of some
sunflowers for which van Gogh had thought he might get 50 francs-was
auctioned off in London for $39.9 million. Some art lovers might
well argue that that's not such an outrageous price for a masterpiece
when you consider the mundane nature of the other things $39.9
million could purchase: one mile of interstate highway, two F-16 ...
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