Vincent Van Gogh's landscape sells for over $7 million at Paris auction

Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh's "Raccommodeuses de filets dans les dunes" (Women mending nets in the fields) sold for a record $8.27( seven million euros) million at an auction in Paris.

The masterpiece was earlier estimated to sell for around three to five million euros but it overshot by a distance.

The painting dating back to 1882 was brought by an American collector after a "hot bidding battle", Artcurial auction house said. "It's a world record for a Van Gogh landscape, in the Dutch period, sold at auction," Artcurial said.

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The painting depicted a women working in a field under the sky which was apparently inspired by The Hague.

Van Gough's earlier painting had sold nearly 20 years ago in the mid-1990s named "Le Jardin a Auvers" (The Garden at Auvers) for $10 million.