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On the anniversary of the artist’s birth, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers was (21) for just under ￡25 million at the fine art auctioneers (拍卖商), Christie’s, in London. The (22) was triple the previous record of ￡8 million paid in 1985 for Mantegna’s Adoration of the Magi. At least ten bidders (23) for the painting, half (24) telephone, anonymously battling it out in leaps of ￡500,000. Van Gogh wrote in a letter of 1889 that one of these Scots or Americans (25) to pay 500 francs—about ￡25 at that time—for (26) a painting.
Christie’s chairman (27) reporters after the sale, "it’s a rare picture." A spokesman for the firm added, "It’s fantastic." Not (28) who was at the auction agreed. One commented, "More money (29) sense."
Many people do (30) uneasy that a picture could be auctioned for such an unbelievable sum. They find distasteful the contrast (31) this sort of money and the impoverished life of the painter (32) . Van Gogh, once a lay preacher among the miners of Belgium, was more (33) in producing work that dignified labor than he was in selling for a profit. Depressive, poor, unrecognized and (34) suicidal, he remains a romantic figure in the public (35) .

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