A Paul Gauguin painting valued at $60 million US and one of Vincent van Gogh's last landscapes, expected to go for $35 million US, are up for auction in New York next week.

Van Gogh's The Fields (Wheat Fields), painted in 1890, is expected to sell for up to $35 million.
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Van Gogh's The Fields (Wheat Fields) was painted in early July 1890 by the Dutch artist in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, just before he died.

It will be included in Sotheby's sale of Impressionist and modern art slated for Wednesday and Thursday.

The auction house will also sell Gauguin's Te Poipoi (The Morning), a portrait of a Tahitian woman, and Pablo Picasso's Tête de femme, an 80-centimetre sculpture of his lover Dora Marr.

The Picasso is expected to sell for somewhere near $30 million US.

On Tuesday, Christie's auction house is selling five watercolours and two oils by Paul Cézanne that it describes as the most important group of works by the French artist to come to market in a decade.

Paul Cézanne's Portrait de Vallier, a watercolour over pencil on paper, is expected to fetch up to $25 million US and is one of five Cézanne watercolours and two oils on offer in New York.
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Portrait de Vallier, a watercolour sketch of Cézanne's gardener, is valued at $25 million US, while Compotier et assiette de biscuits, an oil painting showing red and yellow apples in a bed of dark green leaves, is expected to fetch $10 million to $15 million US.

Sotheby's is also currently showing a J.M.W. Turner watercolour in New York that will sell in December in London.

Bamborough Castle, a painting of a castle on the edge of the North Sea by Britain's greatest watercolourist, has been in the hands of the Vanderbilt family.

The family bought it in 1890 and it hasn't been seen in public for more than 100 years.

With files from the Associated Press