A Pricey Potty Outsells a Van Gogh
An ornate 18th-Century toilet outsold a Van Gogh at the European Fine Art Fair.
The patrician potty, which has tropical wood inlay, a marble lid and a French oak bowl, fetched $205,200 over the weekend.
“Women Working in the Field,” a pencil sketch by Dutch Impressionist Vincent van Gogh, sold for $120,500 to a Spanish collector.
The toilet’s seller said the Louis XV-style piece likely belonged to an aristocratic or royal family.
The privy was bought by a German couple “who just wanted to live with it,” said Grefen von Wallwitz. He did not give the buyers’ names.
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