Picture of the Day: The most expensive painting in the world!
Publicat de Cosmin Meca, 11 august 2015, 13:48 / actualizat: 30 ianuarie 2021, 11:11
Gauguin’s 1982 picture of two Tahitian girls smashed the record for the world’s most expensive single work of art, when Qatar bought the canvas from a Swiss collector for almost $300 million in February. It was painted during Gauguin’s first trip to Tahiti, where he said he travelled to escape „everything that is artificial and conventional” in Europe.
The 1892 oil painting by the French post-impressionist called Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) was sold by the private collector Rudolf Staechelin, a retired Sotheby’s executive from Basel, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Mr Staechelin, 62, declined to name the buyer but it was thought to be the state-financed Qatar Museums.
