Key facts
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Movement
- Post Impressionism
- Dimensions
- 101 by 77 centimetres (40 in × 30 in)
- Location
- Private collection
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Encyclopedic overview
When Will You Marry? (French: Quand te maries-tu ?, Tahitian: Nafea faa ipoipo?) is an oil painting from 1892 by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin. On loan to the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland for nearly a half-century, it was sold privately by the family of Rudolf Staechelin to Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, in February 2015 for close to US$210 million (£155 million), one of the highest prices ever paid for a work of art. The painting was on exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, until 28 June 2015.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “When Will You Marry?” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.