CHINA / Taiwan, HK, Macao

Vincent Van Gogh under auction in HK
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-04-05 16:26


A visitor looks at the "L'Arlesienne, Madame Ginoux", a painting by Vincent Van Gogh at an auction house in Hong Kong April 4, 2006. Taking the centre-stage of the evening sale in New York on May 2, this most important work from a series of five oils that Van Gogh executed in February 1890 as an homage to his good friend and collaborator Paul Gauguin. The painting is expected to fetch in excess of $40 million. [Reuters]