The revolver with which Vincent van Gogh is believed to have shot himself sold for 162,500 euros ($182,000) at a Paris auction on Wednesday nearly three times the estimate.
A private collector bought the gun, billed as the "the most famous weapon in the history of art", with a telephone bid, Art Auction said.
Discovered by a farmer in 1965 in a field near Auvers-sur-Oise, a village north of Paris where the troubled Dutch painter spent the last few months of his life, the gun had previously been exhibited at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
(Published 19 June 2019, 13:07 IST)