A Dazzling Still Life from the Final Days of Van Gogh | Sotheby’s

“Auvers is very beautiful, really profoundly beautiful” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, and his stay there in the final days of his life proved to be enormously productive. In his seventy days in Auvers, van Gogh would paint seventy or so canvases, including the masterwork Fleurs dans un verre. Sold for $16,007,300 at Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 28 October 2020.