Van Gogh painting set to break Asia record in Hong Kong auction
The Peninsula
Hong Kong: A Vincent van Gogh painting displaying the artist s shift from dark realism to vibrant impressionism could become the most expensive Wester...
Hong Kong: A Vincent van Gogh painting displaying the artist's shift from dark realism to vibrant impressionism could become the most expensive Western painting sold in Asia if it fetches its top estimated value of $50 million at a Hong Kong auction on Thursday.
"Les canots amarres" -- or "the moored boats" -- will be the centrepiece of an inaugural evening sale held to celebrate the opening of auction house Christie's new Asia Pacific headquarters.
According to Christie's, it could fetch between HK$230-380 million (US$30-50 million) on the auction floor.
To date, the most expensive Western painting sold in the region is "Warrior" by Jean-Michel Basquiat, the auction house said.
It had the Christie's gavel dropped at HK$323.6 million -- roughly US$41.9 million at the time -- in Hong Kong in 2021.
