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How much is Irises worth?

Irises last sold for $53.9 million at Sotheby's New York in 1987. It is now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, so it is not for sale. Van Gogh's highest documented sale is higher: $117.2 million for Verger avec cyprès (Orchard with Cypresses), in 2022.

Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1889
Medium: Oil on canvas
Held by: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Sold for$53.9MSotheby's New York · 1987

About the painting

Irises is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Painted in 1889, the work is a landscape with a cropped composition and is one of a series of several hundred paintings that van Gogh made at the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890. It has been in the permanent collection of The Getty in Los Angeles, California since 1990.

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Van Gogh next to other famous artists

Each artist's highest documented sale, from the same research. Van Gogh: $117.2 million for Verger avec cyprès (Orchard with Cypresses), in 2022.

Rembrandt$199MThe Standard Bearer · 2022
Seurat$149MLes Poseuses, Ensemble · 2022
Cézanne$138MLa Montagne Sainte-Victoire · 2022
Munch$120MThe Scream · 2012
Van Gogh$117MVerger avec cyprès (Orchard with Cypresses) · 2022
Monet$111MMeules (Haystacks) · 2019
Gauguin$106MMaternité II · 2022
Botticelli$92.2MPortrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel · 2021
Renoir$78.1MBal du moulin de la Galette · 1990

Nominal US dollars as reported at the time of sale, buyer's premium included where the source includes it.

Why it has no price

Irises is held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Works in public collections are not sold, so no one can put a market price on them. Sale records of other works by the same artist are the closest guide to what it would fetch.

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Questions

How much is Irises worth?

Irises last sold for $53.9 million at Sotheby's New York in 1987. It is now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, so it is not for sale. Van Gogh's highest documented sale is higher: $117.2 million for Verger avec cyprès (Orchard with Cypresses), in 2022.

Is Irises for sale?

No. It is held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Works in public collections are not sold, so they have no market price.

What is Van Gogh's most expensive work?

Verger avec cyprès (Orchard with Cypresses), which sold for $117.2 million at Christie's New York in 2022. Prices are nominal US dollars as reported at the time.

When did Irises last sell?

It sold at Sotheby's New York in 1987 for $53.9 million.

Where is Irises?

Irises (1889, oil on canvas) is held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.