Van Gogh work on sale for $30m at TEFAF Maastricht

A Van Gogh work, painted weeks before he killed himself, goes under the hammer for the first time in more than 90 years, estimated $30m.

L’Enfant a l’Orange (The Child With An Orange) will go on sale next month at the European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

The painting, which is one of several works Van Gogh painted after spending time with his baby nephew named Vincent after the artist, was created in 1890, the final month of his life before Vincent Van Gogh shot himself at the age of 37.

The subject of the portrait is a two-year-old Raoul Levert, the son of a carpenter in the French village of Auvers, 25 miles north of Paris, where the artist spent some time before he shot himself in the chest.

The acclaimed work of art is to go on sale for the first time in more than 90 years. It has been placed on the market by the heirs of a Swiss couple, who bought it in 1916.

Source: Press TV, 2 March 2008