Van Gogh painting sells for €31m
L’Arlesienne, Madame Ginoux sold for $40,336,000, the fourth highest price paid at auction for a painting by the artist.
Picasso’s portrayal of his Russian ballerina wife Olga Khokhlova, entitled Le Repos, 1932, fetched €27,585,000 at Christie’s, well above pre-sale estimates of up to €15.8m.