![]() The Van Gogh works will be displayed at Sotheby’s from 29 January to 4 February. Van Gogh’s French paintings generally sell for well over £10m-and often for a great deal more. ![]() Similar figures appear in Van Gogh’s first masterpiece, The Potato Eaters (1885), painted a few months earlier.Īll four of the Sotheby’s works are likely to appeal to connoisseurs, rather than those wanting a trophy Van Gogh from the artist’s later period in France (1886-90). Her hands are overly large, emphasising that she is a manual worker, but her head is strangely thin. Peasant Woman Seated (1885) shows the sitter absorbed in her own thoughts. The final work coming up at Sotheby’s is a painting, depicting a woman resting in a cottage, done in the characteristic dark tones of Van Gogh’s Dutch period. Vincent van Gogh, Peasant Woman Seated (June 1885) Courtesy of Sotheby’s
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