A painting created by Vincent van Gogh during the brief period when he worked side by side with his friend Paul Gauguin in the south of France has been sold at auction for $66.3 million (nearly 60 million euros), Sothebys said Wednesday.
'Les Alyscamps,' painted in 1888, went under the hammer at Sotheby's after going on sale with a reserve price of 40 million euros.
It was sold to a private Asian collector. The record at auction for a Van Gogh painting is $82.5 million.
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