Rare Tahiti Gauguin sells for US$10.5m
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A RARE canvas by French artist Paul Gauguin from his time in Tahiti fetched 9.5 million euros (US$10.5 million) in Paris on Tuesday, nearly twice its estimated value, the auction house said.
The bidding had drawn keen interest amid growing controversy over Gauguin鈥檚 relationships with young girls on the Polynesian island and his depictions of them.
The 1897 painting, 鈥淭e Bourao II鈥 or 鈥渢ree鈥 in Tahitian, had been expected to go for around 5 to 7 million euros.
The buyer is an 鈥渋nternational collector,鈥 the Artcurial auction house said.
It added the artwork depicting an evocative Tahiti landscape would remain in France.
It is one of the few paintings from the post-impressionist鈥檚 Tahiti period still in private hands. According to Artcurial, the last sale in France of a Gauguin from this period was 22 years ago.
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