Van Gogh landscape sells for 7 million euros at auction

An early landscape by Vincent Van Gogh, one of the art world’s most sought-after painters, sold for 7.07 million euros (6.21 million pounds) at an auction in Paris on Monday.

Painted in 1882, “Fishing Net Menders in the Dunes” depicts peasant women working on the land under a cloudy sky, inspired by the countryside around The Hague, where Van Gogh passed a short but formative period.

The painting had been valued at 3 million to 5 million euros. It was purchased by a buyer based in North America, auction house Artcurial said.

While hardly cheap, the price comes nowhere near the record $450.3 million paid last November for “Salvator Mundi”, Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th century portrait of Christ.