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Gauguin painting sells for $300m
Topic Started: Feb 7 2015, 12:57 PM (248 Views)
CJ
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A very minor case of serious brain damage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31183733

A painting of two Tahitian girls by the French artist Paul Gauguin has been sold for $300m (£197m), making it the most expensive work of art ever sold.

Nafea Faa Ipoipo, or When Will You Marry?, was painted in 1892 and had been owned by a Swiss collector.

Unconfirmed reports suggest it was sold to a museum in Qatar.

The small oil-rich state paid the previous highest price for a painting, a work by Paul Cezanne which sold for $259m.

Before its sale, the Gaugin artwork had been owned by Rudolf Staechelin, a collector from Basel.



Wow, there can't be that many people who have $300 million to spend on works of art! I wonder how much Mr Staechelin originally bought it for?
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GrieferLord
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no clue, i bet if anyone found some of the great lost art the nazis took it would be worth far more!
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CJ
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Quite possibly, especially if Raphael's Portrait of a Young Man were to re-appear.

It's already been suggested that it would be worth in excess of $100 million - but, given that there are people out there with such deep pockets, who knows how much it would go for?
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im sure some billionaire would buy that up in a heartbeat if one hasn't already.
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