Te Fare
ArtistPaul Gauguin
Year1892
MediumOil on Canvas
LocationPrivate collection

Te Fare (French: La Maison; English: The House) is an 1892 oil on canvas landscape painting by the French post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin.[1]

The work was created during the artist's initial eighteen-month stay on the island of Tahiti during a period of his opus which has been described as "exuberant".[2]

The painting was purchased in a private sale in 2008 by the Russian billionaire oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev for 54 million euros (then approximately $85 million USD). Then in 2017 he sustained a more than sixty million-dollar loss on his investment when he sold it at auction for $25 million USD.[3]

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References

  1. ^ "Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)".
  2. ^ "VIDEO: How Tahiti transformed Gauguin". 15 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Russian Billionaire Takes 74% Loss on $85 Million Gauguin". Bloomberg.com. 28 February 2017.
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