A man visited Sotheby's art auction house in New York last month, and dropped a cool USD66.3 million on Vincent van Gogh's L'Allee des Alyscamps - and nobody knows who the hell he was.
The man reportedly "was speaking Chinese on [his] phone, but denied being Chinese," according to ArtNet News. Protip: If you don't want to be identified as Chinese, don't speak Chinese.
He also showed up to the event in a hoddie and jeans - a great way to blend in almost anywhere in New York except Sotheby's, which tends not to be the best place to spot the newest digs from the Billabong collection.
According to Quartz, the mystery man overpaid by a hefty sum: the work was estimated to go for USD40 million. His 66 mil' marks the second-highest price ever paid for a van Gogh, behind a USD82.5 million purchase by a Japanese collector in 1990.
TL;DR: Worst undercover Chinese person ever blows huge sum on painting.
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