(30 Oct 2007) US VAN GOGH
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New York City - 25 October, 2007
1. Wide shot of Vincent Van Gogh's painting "The Fields"
2. Tight pan of painting
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Norman, chairman of Sotheby's impressionist and modern art department worldwide
"It's a time when he (Van Gogh) is reaching sort of the depths of despondency in terms of his own emotional state and isolation. Conversely, his art is achieving its greatest moments where the freedom of the use of colour the lushness of the brush stroke the expressive qualities are really unique and are going to change the way people look at art and the way artists paint from then on."
4. Tight rack focus of brush strokes
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Norman, chairman of Sotheby's impressionist and modern art department worldwide
"It was a very rural area with farmers and here we see a broad plain of wheat that's yellow and ripened and ready for harvest. He was very rooted to the land he really thought the great joys and mysteries of life don't reside in necessarily religious exaltations of themes and subjects, but just in a common simple connection to other people and the earth and the cycles of the earth and the seasons. So he is just reaching out and kind of grasping the visual experience before him."
6. Mid shot painting
7. Tight shot painting
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Norman, chairman of Sotheby's impressionist and modern art department worldwide
"Van Gogh intended to keep this painting as sort of a personal collection of his masterpieces, a painting that would be touchstone of his art going forward. And right after his death his brother Theo recognised that and retained that for the family as opposed to the many other works they tried to put immediately on the market."
9. Wide shot of painting
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One of Vincent Van Gogh's final paintings "The Fields" is to be sold at auction at Sotheby's in New York on November 7.
The inn in Auvers-sur-Oise in France, where Van Gogh died, hopes to be able to raise enough money to buy the painting and return it to display in the room when he passed away.
STORYLINE:
Vincent Van Gogh painted 70 paintings in the last seventy days of his life which is spent in the town of Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris.
David Norman, chairman of Sotheby's impressionist and modern art department worldwide says the work done during this time showed his turbulent state of mind, but also refined his distinctive use of brush strokes which would "change the way people look at art and the way artists paint. "
Van Gogh arrived in Auvers-sur-Oise in May 1890, by the end of July he was dead.
"The Fields" was one of several paintings of wheat fields surrounding the town which he captured in his last month.
Van Gogh's painting depicts wheat fields swaying in the breeze under a blue sky.
He died on July 29, 1890, two days after going to a field and shooting himself in the chest
Norman says the painting reflects the artist's connection with the land.
He says that Van Gogh had earmarked this painting as something that should remain in a personal collection and after his death his brother Theo recognised this and retained this painting for the family in the short term.
The painting was sold by Theo van Gogh's widow in 1907 and has since remained in private hands.
Norman believes "The Fields" will fetch about 28 to 35 million US dollars.
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