ART

Van Gogh Gone: Sotheby’s auction house in London pulled a painting attributed to Vincent van Gogh out of a sale Tuesday after the Amsterdam museum devoted to the artist warned that it could be a fake. The small picture of a house with a red roof between trees and two figures on a path, titled “The Steps at Auvers” (“L’Escalier a Auvers”), had been valued from $3.5 million to $5.2 million in the sale of Impressionist and modern art. The withdrawn work had been sold in Copenhagen in 1925 as a genuine work of the artist and scholars dated it to July, 1890, shortly before Van Gogh shot himself.