The French Dispatch's Best Story Finds the Violence Between Art and Commerce

Vincent van Gogh's painting Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear sold for $71.5 million at a November 1998 Christie’s auction. The artist created it after dropping a package off at a brothel for a woman named Rachel, telling her to "guard this object with your life." That was in December 1888. Van Gogh was an unknown artist […] The post The French Dispatch’s Best Story Finds the Violence Between Art and Commerce appeared first on Den of Geek.