{"id":12794,"date":"2023-05-28T20:45:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T20:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12794"},"modified":"2023-06-04T20:48:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T20:48:39","slug":"vanishing-vincent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/28\/vanishing-vincent\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanishing Vincent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/29\/world\/asia\/van-gogh-china-buyer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Mystery of the Disappearing van Gogh<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nMqjEa2NvLw\" target=\"_blank\">bidding<\/a>\u00a0for Lot 17 started at $23 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/michael-forsythe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Forsythe<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/isabelle-qian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Isabelle Qian<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/muyi-xiao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Muyi Xiao<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/vivian-wang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vivian Wang<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/The-Mystery-of-the-Disappearing-van-Gogh-750x375.jpg\" alt=\"The Mystery of the Disappearing van Gogh\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the packed room at Sotheby\u2019s in Manhattan, the price quickly climbed: $32 million, $42 million, $48 million. Then a new prospective buyer, calling from China, made it a contest between just two people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the block that evening in November 2014 were works by Impressionist painters and Modernist sculptors that would make the auction the most&nbsp;successful yet in the firm\u2019s history. But one painting drew particular attention: \u201cStill Life, Vase with Daisies and Poppies,\u201d completed by Vincent van Gogh weeks before his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pushing the price to almost $62 million, the Chinese caller prevailed. His offer was the highest ever for a van Gogh still life at auction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the discreet world of high-end art, buyers often remain anonymous. But the winning bidder, a prominent movie producer, would\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/china-movie-mogul-wang-zhongjun-buys-vincent-van-gogh-painting-for-61-8-million-1415180355\" target=\"_blank\">proclaim<\/a>\u00a0in interview after interview that he was the painting\u2019s new owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/29\/world\/asia\/van-gogh-china-buyer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times The Mystery of the Disappearing van Gogh The\u00a0bidding\u00a0for Lot 17 started at $23 million. By\u00a0Michael Forsythe,\u00a0Isabelle Qian,\u00a0Muyi Xiao\u00a0and\u00a0Vivian Wang In the packed room at Sotheby\u2019s in Manhattan, the price quickly climbed: $32 million, $42 million, $48 million. Then a new prospective buyer, calling from China, made it a contest between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}