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    Within the last 50 years, what was the highest price ever paid for something at a public auction, what was the item, and what was the amount of the winning bid?

    Question #18876. Asked by boyscout. (May 07 02 12:28 PM)


    makebeleaffan

    		I can come with {$82} million for Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet, do I hear more.

    http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/01/0502hot.html

    May 07 02, 1:25 PM
    Son of The Household Cavalry

    		I thought that was an 'by invitation only' auction. If members of the public have {$82.5} million to spend, I am mixing with the wrong kind of public.

    May 07 02, 2:18 PM
    Senior Moments

    		The Guinness Book of Records agree with makebeleaffan about the title but with SOTHC with the amount.
    Portrait of Dr Gachet by Vincent van Gogh sold at Christie's in New York in May 1990 for {$82.5} million or 49.1 million pounds sterling. It depicts Van Gogh's doctor and was completed weeks before the artist's suicide in 1890

    May 08 02, 6:13 AM

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