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Two Van Gogh records smashed—and a new highest sale price for the artist’s Paris period work

Sotheby's sold “Parisian Novels” for $62m and “The Sower” for over $10m, a record for one of his drawings

Martin Bailey
21 November 2025
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Van Gogh’s Parisian Novels (Piles de romans parisiens et roses dans une verre; Romans parisiens) (November-December 1887) was sold for $62.7m at Sotheby’s, New York on 20 November

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