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London, Sept 22 : A painting believed to be Van Gogh's final masterpiece is to go under the hammer for the first time.

Van Gogh completed his work 'The Fields' on 10 July 1890, just 19 days before his death.

The artist, who was battling depression at the time, walked into a field on 27 July 1890, at the age of 37, and shot himself in the chest with a revolver. Without realizing that he was fatally wounded he returned to the Ravoux Inn where he died in his bed two days later.

The work has been in private hands ever since, and has been in Britain only once.

It is now going under the hammer at Sotheby's in London on 7 October and sold at auction in New York a month later with an estimated list price 17 million pounds, which is expected to make it one of the most highly-valued paintings ever auctioned.

"As a unique work of art from the final days of the artist's life, the price will most likely be driven by passion. This is perhaps the last opportunity for a collector to acquire a landscape of this quality by Vincent van Gogh," The Independent quoted a spokeswoman for Sotheby's.

Van Gogh's brother, Theo, was so emotionally attached to the painting that he kept it in the family collection for 20 years before his widow, Johanna, finally sold it to a private collector, Paul Cassirer, in 1907.

Since then, it has remained in private collections, exchanging hands between collectors privately but never entering the public market.

ANI