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Only 15 pictures a smog sells the artist during lifetime, having received thus the aggregate profit of 25 pounds sterling. And in 1987 at "Christie's" London auction only its picture "Sunflowers" (one of six variants written to it) has been sold for such astronomical sum of which thousand share the artist could not even dream in due time. And it has made neither much nor not enough 22,5 million pounds sterling.
Hundred years ago he dreamt of that any rich American or the Scot has got its still-life. This picture has been written by Van Gogh in solar Arle, in the south of France, for 18 months before at the age of 37 years it has committed suicide...
Van Gogh's Products are and in our country-in the State Hermitage and the State museum of the fine arts of a name of Ampere-second. Pushkin. The richest meeting of its pictures-276 poloten-is in the Netherlands in museum Kryoller-Mjuller in Otterlo, and also in Van Gogh's National museum and the Municipal museum (both-in Amsterdam).
In the XX-th century of tradition of the Netherlands school has continued Isaak Israels (1865-1934), and among artists-avant-gardists it would be desirable to name Leo Gestela (1881-1934) and the Karelian of Appela-one of organizers of group "Cobra" (the word is made of the first letters of names of cities of Copenhagen, Bruxelles and Amsterdam, whose representatives have united within the limits of this international association).
Willem's works de Kooninga use the Big popularity. In November, 1984 at "Christie's" auction in New York its picture Â"Two womenÂ" has been sold for the record sum on that time - 1 819 956 dollars. Exactly in two years this record has been beaten, and the picture belonging to a brush of the well-known Dutch became the winner again. This time the cloth Â"the Composition on the area with a red cornerÂ" Pita Mondriana (1872-1944), the brightest representative of abstract art of the Netherlands of this century, the founder neo-plastitsizma has appeared the champion. For this direction abstract compositions from the rectangular figures painted in primary colours of a spectrum are characteristic. The picture has been got by the anonymous Japanese buyer for 5060 thousand dollars.
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