The Nation : $9.9 Million for Van Gogh

“Landscape With Rising Sun,” Vincent van Gogh’s glistening study of a wheat field near St. Remy, France, was sold at auction at Sotheby’s in New York for $9.9 million, a record price for any Impressionist painting and a new high for Van Gogh. The buyer was not identified. The previous high for the artist was $5.72 million. Painted in 1889, while Van Gogh was in a sanitarium, the work was part of the collection of the late Frances J. Gould, widow of American railroad multimillionaire Frank Jay Gould.