Elizabeth Taylor Van Gogh fetches $US40m

Updated May 16 2018 - 4:08pm, first published 4:04pm
A Vincent Van Gogh painting once owed by Elizabeth Taylor has sold for $US40 million in New York.
A Vincent Van Gogh painting once owed by Elizabeth Taylor has sold for $US40 million in New York.

Vincent van Gogh's only painting that captures the views outside the French asylum in which he voluntarily stayed has sold for $39.7 million ($A52.96 million) at Christie's auction house in New York.