Saturday, 8. February 2003
Topic: - on February 8, 2003 at 1:13:41 PM CET
Van Gogh original nearly sold for $80
A missing portrait by Vincent Van Gogh was valued at as little as $80 by a Tokyo auction house this week - before the mistake was discovered.
The Shinwa Art Auction Company was planning to auction off the small portrait of a peasant woman for between 10,000 and 20,000 yen ($83 to $167) after struggling to establish the identity of the artist.
¬> BBC
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