{"id":11628,"date":"2021-11-13T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=11628"},"modified":"2021-11-14T17:09:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T16:09:55","slug":"the-cox-collection-going-going-gone-van-gogh-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=11628","title":{"rendered":"Going, going, gone – Van Gogh (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As I have previously discussed (here<\/a> and here<\/a>), with the interest and anticipation of the lay person, the Cox Collection was duly auctioned on November 11 by Christie’s<\/a> – far, far exceeding expectations, it brought in nearly $332 million! My attention was focused on the Van Gogh works, and according to Art News<\/em><\/a> an agent (waving the paddle 619) took home the haystack and the cypress and olive trees (the latter for a staggering $71 million!) – for the same buyer or different is not known. Given the secrecy, I think it is fair to guess that these remarkable works of art, already so rarely seen, will disappear again into a private collection and we – the greater public – can bid [sic!] farewell to their public viewing anytime soon (as with the Portrait of Dr Gachet <\/em>which disappeared<\/a> after being sold in 1990 for $82.5m – also by Christie’s). And the fate of the much talked about red-haired, pink-cheeked, flower-chewing boy\/girl that so entranced me, and that I considered – seriously showing my art market acumen – to be seriously undervalued (and, I was right; estimated at $5-7 million it sold for $46.7 million!) seems likely to be the same; even in reproduction, I love this picture – ‘they’ would have found a better home with ‘us’ for sure. But who knows, maybe the buyers are fans of the share economy – to be stretched beyond cars and couches and such pedestrian comforts to the much finer things of life (and commerce).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin Bailey, who has definitely become my person to go to on all things Van Gogh, blogs on the outcomes<\/a> of an eventful (not to mention, profitable!) evening in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I have previously discussed (here and here), with the interest and anticipation of the lay person, the Cox Collection was duly auctioned on November 11 by Christie’s – far, far exceeding expectations, it brought in nearly $332 million! My attention was focused on the Van Gogh works, and according to Art News an agent … Continue reading “Going, going, gone – Van Gogh (3)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[304,302],"class_list":["post-11628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-christies","tag-vincent-van-gogh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11628"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11651,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628\/revisions\/11651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}