71701X1 Second Printing. Penguin Books, New York: 1999. 409 pages. Softcover. Very good condition. At a star-studded auction in 1990, a painting was sold for the record-breaking price 82.5 million. That painting, Portrait of Dr. Gachet, one of the last done by Vincent van Gogh, had been painted almost one hundred years earlier. This fascinating book reconstructs the painting's hundred-year journey and becomes a rich story of modernist art and the political and commercial forces influencing the art market. Includes an Index. ""Saltzman has had a brilliant idea for a book, and she has executed it wondrously." - Gerald Walker, The Washington Post Book World ISBN: 0140254870 $8.70USD
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