The two Tahitian women protagonists of the box Paul Gauguin “ Nafea faa Ipoipo ” (When did you marry?) Seemed to look extrañadas to stir television cameras and photographic that helps implement the when the most expensive work sold world hung on the walls of Queen Sofia.
With this massive event, the painting has been incorporated into the exhibition “Collecting and Modernity Two study cases. Collections Im Obersteg and Rudolf Staechelin” organized to mark the closure of the Kunstmuseum Basel reform in these collections were shown.
After two days of travel in a truck transport and “sleep” one night in Barcelona, the painting arrived last Wednesday to Queen Sofia , where 24 hours was acclimatising to temperature and humidity, and yesterday he got to the room to suit the specific conditions of that space.
After a stint in Madrid, it will be exhibited until January next year at The Phillips Collection in Washington, before moving permanently into the hands of the new owner, apparently of Qatar, which has paid for it about $ 300 million .
With these displays one of the conditions that put the Rudolf Staechelin Family Trust, owner of the work so far, for sale is met.
A sale that has been featured in the introduction to the exhibition of the painting sold more expensive in the world, a point on which Staechelin Ruedi has refused to give information “and that for reasons of confidentiality” is not allowed to make any comment.
In his opinion, the audience would be wrong if you moved them to attend the event is the price of the painting “and not what is a wonderful work.”
When asked if they have reinforced security measures, he replied that this “is not the most valuable painting” of exposing the Reina Sofia, “as is arguably the most Guernica”.
Staechelin can not be considered works of art look only for what they are worth and said his family has no plans to sell any other work, a decision that not only depends on him.
Although his opinion “plays a major role,” he stressed, because Rudolf Staechelin Family Trust is managed by two shareholders, and stressed that the purpose of it is to help the welfare of the family.
A being that has led them to separate from a “member” of your family: “Life is like that and I am very sorry,” he said and recalled that it is not the first major sale for economic reasons has been done in the history of the collection, as happened with “The Two Brothers” and “sitting Harlequin” by Picasso, which is currently on display at the Museo del Prado.
Another of the questions about the collection is its future after visiting Washington as Staechelin has acknowledged that “some problems” with the Kunstmuseum Basel , would not “enter a comment “.
However, he did not rule out returning to the Swiss institution which for many years has shown the collection in a way that did not satisfy its owner. Maybe it’s time to diversify a little “and not having all your eggs in one basket,” he said.
“Nafea faa Ipoipo” hung alongside other paintings of Gauguin belonging to, collection “Landscape with Red Roof” (1885), was exposed in 1893 at Gallery Paul Durand-Ruel, who, together with the author, as assessed 500 thousand (the most expensive of the displayed) FF.
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