Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat - Vincent van Gogh

Price in US $ - 47.5 million

Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat is an 1890 painting by Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh went on to paint several versions of this painting. The excellent painting was an oil work on a canvas sized 36 1/4 * 28 3/4 (92 * 73 cm). One such version was used in Stanlist political art of 1930; where a peasant woman is portrayed holding sheaves of wheat. This peasant woman represented a complex and controversial image in the lexicon of Soviet political art. Peasant Woman was also depicted in Nikolai Kochergin's poster. In this poster, Nikolai depicted the woman as a buxom woman wearing a kerchief and bast shoes.

Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers - Vincent van Gogh

Price in US $ - 39.7 million






















Based on a still life theme, Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers was created by Van Gogh in August 1888.

It was created in a spectacular series by the Dutch artist. This oil painting series includes similar paintings of fifteen sunflowers in a vase, depicting the illustration of sunflowers passing through several stages of life, beginning with full blooming to withering out. The artist brilliantly produced it in several shades and hues. The painting is regarded especially for its innovative nature, which significantly highlights the use of the yellow spectrum, as well as the newly invented use of colors.

A Wheat Field with Cypresses - Vincent Van Gogh

Price in US $ - 57 million
















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The last two years of Van Gogh's life were productive of marvelous pictures--painted though they were under constant strain. During this period he traveled far from his Impressionist starting-point. The equable balance of Impressionism was replaced by an emotional turbulence.

This picture appears as a whole in the multitude of curves that twist and turn and repeat themselves throughout. The Neo-Impressionist juxtaposition of near-primary colors was also exaggerated to a point of intense brilliance.

Portrait of Joseph Roulin - Vincent van Gogh

Price in US $ - 58,000,000




“A good soul and so wise and so full of feeling and so trustful." Thus Vincent van Gogh described his friend Joseph-Etienne Roulin, a postal worker in Arles (France), where Van Gogh lived from 1888 to 1889. In letters and pictures, Van Gogh idealized Roulin, regarding him as both a man of the people and a sage.

The artist was fascinated by Roulin's physiognomy. The face, which he deemed Socratic because of the shortened nose, was flushed with a high coloration van Gogh attributed to heavy drinking and was garlanded with an abundant salt-and-pepper beard. Roulin was an ardent socialist, vehement in his support of the left wing of French republican politics. Perhaps more importantly for the lonely and isolated van Gogh, Roulin was also the devoted father of a large family.

Portrait du Dr Gachet - Van Gogh

Price in US $ - 82,500,000


Van Gogh wrote to his brother in 1890 about the painting: “I've done the portrait of M. Gachet with a melancholy expression, which might well seem like a grimace to those who see it... Sad but gentle, yet clear and intelligent, that is how many portraits ought to be done... There are modern heads that may be looked at for a long time, and that may perhaps be looked back on with longing a hundred years later."

Irises - Van Gogh

Price in US $ - 53,900,000

Irises is a painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It was one of his first works while he was admitted at an asylum in France in the last year before his death in 1890. It was painted before his first attack at the asylum. There is a lack of the high tension which is seen in his later works. He called the painting "the lightning conductor for my illness", because he felt that he could keep himself from going insane by continuing to paint.