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Vincent van Gogh: The Genius Nobody Bought

Four hundred francs to a hundred and seventeen million dollars

Vincent van Gogh sold one painting in his lifetime. He is now the most recognisable artist on Earth. The gap between his reception and his legacy is one of history's strangest reversals — and the woman who engineered it was almost entirely forgotten.

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