Rare Van Gogh fetches ‘several million’ at Dutch art fair

THE HAGUE, March 11 — A rare early work by Vincent van Gogh has been sold for a reported several million euros at an art fair in the Netherlands, its previous owner and Dutch...

Personnel members hang for display a rare Vincent van Gogh painting,"Tete de paysanne a la coiffe blanche" , painted circa 1884, that will be auctionned at the TEFAF Maastricht art fair, in Maastricht, on March 6, 2024. — AFP picTHE HAGUE, March 11 — A rare early work by Vincent van Gogh has been sold for a reported several million euros at an art fair in the Netherlands, its previous owner and Dutch media said yesterday.

“It has been sold to a museum outside the European Union,” said Bill Rau, president of the M.S. Rau Gallery who had put the painting up for sale.Dutch national news agency ANP however said the asking price “was matched by the sales price”. Van Gogh painted the work around 1884 while living with his parents in the southern Dutch town of Nuenen, the year before he completed his other famous work from the period, “The Potato Eaters”.Visitors to the fair, known as TEFAF, are able to marvel at a treasure trove of paintings, sculptures and jewellery — all up for sale until Thursday.

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