{"id":89391,"date":"2015-02-07T15:16:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T15:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=89391"},"modified":"2015-02-07T15:16:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T15:16:02","slug":"painting-sale-sets-300m-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=89391","title":{"rendered":"Painting sale sets $300m record"},"content":{"rendered":"

A painting of two Tahitian girls by the French artist Paul Gauguin has been sold for $300m (\u00a3197m), making it the most expensive work of art ever sold.<\/p>\n

Nafea Faa Ipoipo, or When Will You Marry?, was painted in 1892 and had been owned by a Swiss collector.<\/p>\n

Unconfirmed reports suggest it was sold to a museum in Qatar.<\/p>\n

The small oil-rich state paid the previous highest price for a painting, a work by Paul Cezanne which sold for a reported \u00a3158m.<\/p>\n

Before its sale, the Gauguin artwork had been owned by Rudolf Staechelin, a collector from Basel.<\/p>\n

For decades it had been on loan to the Kunstmuseum Basel but Mr Staechelin decided to sell the painting after a disagreement with the museum, US media report.<\/p>\n

Some of the most expensive paintings<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Paul Cezanne – The Card Players \u00a3158m<\/strong> – Before the Gauguin sale, this was believed to be the most money paid for a painting. Also purchased by Qataris, it fetched a reported \u00a3158m in 2011.<\/p>\n

Francis Bacon – Three Studies of Lucian Freud \u00a389m- <\/strong>The triptych is considered one of Bacon’s greatest masterpieces. It sold after six minutes of fierce bidding in November 2013, according to auction house Christie’s.<\/p>\n

The Scream was sold in May 2012<\/div>\n

Edvard Munch – The Scream \u00a374m – <\/strong>Perhaps one of the world’s most famous images, The Scream went on sale in May 2012, sparking a 12-minute bidding war. By the end, the privately-owned pastel, one of four in a series by the Norwegian, had been sold for \u00a374m.<\/p>\n

Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer \u00a373m –<\/strong>According to The New York Times, the Neue Galerie paid \u00a373m for the oil painting in a private sale in 2006. It had been looted by the Nazis during World War Two, before being returned to Ms Bloch-Bauer’s heir in 2006.<\/p>\n

Jackson Pollock – No. 5 \u00a373m – <\/strong>Pollock’s famous drip-and-pour painting was sold for a then record \u00a373m, also in 2006, according to The New York Times. Reports said US media magnate David Geffen sold the 4ft by 8ft work to Mexican financier David Martinez.<\/p>\n

Pablo Picasso – Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust \u00a365.5m – <\/strong>Considered amongst Picasso’s greatest post-war paintings, it sold at auction in New York in 2010 for \u00a365.5m.<\/p>\n

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Mr Staechelin told the New York Times he would not divulge the identity of the buyer.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear where the sale had taken place.<\/p>\n

However the paper, which first reported the sale, quoted sources saying the painting had been sold to Qatari buyers.<\/p>\n

Officials in Qatar have not yet confirmed the purchase.<\/p>\n

The sheikhdom’s royal family has in recent years spent vast amounts of money on Western art.<\/p>\n

Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed Al-Thani, a former minister of culture who died last year, lavished more than $1bn of the country’s money on artworks.<\/p>\n

Qatar sponsored a 2012 Damien Hirst retrospective in the UK which later moved to the country’s capital Doha, and has invested large sums of money financing museums of Islamic and modern Arab art.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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