Gauguin Tahitian painting set to fetch up to $7.4mn at Paris auction
Estimated at 5-7M ($5.48-7.64M USD), the painting is up for auction at Paris Artcurial auction house.
PARIS (Reuters) - A painting from French post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian period is set to sell for up to €7M ($7.64M USD) at auction in Paris on Tuesday (December 3).
The painting, which is titled "Te Bourao", depicts a stream with birds and flowers in a rich palette of blues and greens, and was painted in 1897 while the artist was living in Tahiti, an island in central Pacific.
Estimated at €5-7M ($5.48-7.64M USD), the painting is up for auction at Paris’ Artcurial auction house.
"Te Bourao" is the only work still in private hands from a series of nine paintings centred around Gauguin’s masterpiece "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"
Other works from the series are on display around the world, including at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
Gauguin has broken records in the past. In 2015, his work "When Will You Marry?", also from his Tahitian period, sold for $300m, making it the most expensive work of art ever sold at the time.
Born in Paris in 1848 and unappreciated until after his death in 1903, Gaugin was influential in the Symbolist movement and influenced modern artists like Picasso and Matisse.
His Tahitian paintings and sculpture, made between 1891 and 1901, are his most sought-after and colourful works, and very few are available in the art market.
