Auction Information
Product:Vincent van Gogh's "Wheat Grinding Wheel"
NO:0008
Starting Price:USD 20,000,000-30,000,000
Transaction Price:USD 35,855,000
Specification:48.5×60.4cm
Auction Time:23-Jul-Wed
Auction Company:Christie\'s in New York
Description
Source:
Valentino van Gogh (purchased from the artist himself)
Johanna van Gogh Bong, Paris (inherited from the above collection)
Gustav Faye (purchased from the aforementioned collection in January 1907), Ini, Paris Druye Gallery
Max Merosky, Berlin (1913 to approximately 1938)
Alexandre Rothschild, Paris (1940; kept in the air raid shelter of Blogne Castle on the Seine River; German Foreign Exchange Security Department seized the above place and transferred it to the National Tennis Court of Paris in April 1941, and transferred it to the Castle of Saint Georgen, Altre Highlands on June 18, 1941 (ERR No. R 905)
Wilton Stein Company, New York (1978)
The deceased collector purchased from the aforementioned collection in 1979