[DOC] [TLE] Van Gogh's 'Irises' Sells for $53.9 Million - NYTimes.com [PAR] LEAD: Van Gogh's glowing ''Irises'' -painted in 1889 during the artist's first ... night 
for $53.9 million, the highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction. ... 75 were 
sold, totaled $110 million, a record total for an art auction. ... Published: 
November 12, 1987 ... ''Irises,'' his favorite painting, would sell for more than $34 
million. [DOC] [TLE] Price Shatters Old Mark by More Than $10 Million : Van Gogh ... [PAR] Shattering the record for a painting sold at auction--by more than $10 ... Price 
Shatters Old Mark by More Than $10 Million : Van Gogh Painting 'Irises' Brings 
Record $53.9 Million. November 12, 1987|SUZANNE MUCHNIC | Times Art 
Writer ... those of all other artists' work and are not considered reliable indicators 
of the art... [DOC] [TLE] Painting by Van Gogh Sells for $53 Million - latimes [PAR] Vincent van Gogh's "Irises," the famous depiction of a flower garden at an asylum 
the ... suicide, sold Wednesday for a record price of $53.9 million.The. ... 
November 12, 1987|Associated Press ... the security of a work of art potentially 
worth $40 million or more. ... Price Shatters Old Mark by More Than $10 Million : 
Van. [DOC] [TLE] Van Gogh Painting Sells at Record $82.5 Million : Art: 'Portrait of Dr ... [PAR] May 16, 1990 ... Van Gogh Painting Sells at Record $82.5 Million : Art: 'Portrait of Dr. Gachet' is 
auctioned to a Japanese gallery. The previous high price was $53.9 million. ... 
Christie's auction house had valued the work at $40 million to $50 million, but ... 
The record sale commanded $56.1 million more than the auction's... [DOC] [TLE] List of most expensive paintings - Wikipedia [PAR] This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The earliest sale on 
the list is from ... The current record price is approximately $300 million paid for 
Willem de Kooning's ... van Gogh) is from March 1987; with a price of 24.75 
million (62.8 million in ...... "Chteau Ptrus Makes a Record-Breaking Saleof 
Art". [DOC] [TLE] BBC ON THIS DAY | 11 | 1987: Van Gogh fetches record price [PAR] ... by Vincent Van Gogh is sold for $49m (27m) - a world record for a work of art. 
... The final price was more than twice what the painting, called Irises, had been ... 
fee to the auction house, Sotheby's, bringing the total to $53.9m (29.5m). [DOC] [TLE] How much is a Vincent Van Gogh painting worth in 2015? Are some ... [PAR] Vincent van Gogh's paintings are easily among the most valuable in the world. ... 
Written Dec 5, 2015  Upvoted by Quora User, Bachelor of Fine Arts, ... Some of 
Van Gogh's paintings are worth a lot more than others. ... Irises, 1889 was sold for 
in 1987 for $53.9 million ($112.3 million, inflation adjusted). [DOC] [TLE] What Awaits in the Van Gogh Auction Market? - artnet News [PAR] Oct 21, 2014 ... Van Gogh auction totals skyrocketed along with the broader art ... $13.8 million in 
1985 to $124.3 million in 1987, and then plummeted to ... A Record Price for 
Irises ... overall volume of Van Gogh work sold at auction with $124 million, ... 
observers deemed the $53.9 million price inflated and manipulated. [DOC] [TLE] Australian Tycoon Alan Bond, Who Bought Vincent van Gogh's [PAR] Jun 8, 2015 ... The Global Art Market Newswire. ... Bond bought Van Gogh's Irises at Sotheby's 
New York in 1987 for $53.9 ... hadn't yet paid for the work, which led critics to call 
it a manipulated sale. ... When Australian financier Alan Bond shelled out $53.9 
million for Vincent Van Gogh's Irises, less than one month after...

Question: In 1987 this Van Gogh work sold for $53.9 million, then a record price for a work of art
Answer: Irises