Sentences with phrase «paintings go up in value»

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To me, it would have meant that — this is pre this new rage in buying and selling paintings — that, I think, that the formal values, like light, space, color, all those things that a painting is made up of, as well as the Jacob going up the ladder or Venus on the half shell or something (chuckles) would be what interested the painter.

Eight years ago, when Vincent van Gogh's Garden at Auvers went up for auction in Paris, the late - period work — painted just weeks before the artist's suicide in July 1890 — was valued at more than 200 million francs, nearly $ 30 million.