The Museum of Modern Art Reina Sofia in Madrid exposed from Friday until September 14 the French Paul Gauguin painting “Nafea faa Ipoipo” ( When did you get married?), would be the most expensive in history.
The painting will be exhibited in Madrid during the restoration work of the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland, that during this period also provided the Reina Sofía two of their private collections – Rudolf Staechelin and Im Obersteg -. plus a selection of paintings from its permanent collection
Gauguin belongs to the Rudolf Staechelin collection in the Madrid museum since March. Then travel to Washington to be shown at the Phillips Collection, from October 10 to January 10, 2016, before finally passing into the hands of its new owner.
Canvas painted in 1892 is a “positive” work Gauguin reflects happiness on his first trip to Tahiti, he told a press conference Manuel Borja-Villel, the director of the Spanish museum.
him two Tahitian women sitting on the floor against an idyllic landscape are observed.
In February, the painting was sold to a buyer in Qatar for 300 million dollars (265 million euros) according to the American newspaper New York Times, which would make it the most expensive in history.
until now belonged to the family background of Rudolf Staechelin, retired art dealer who would have inherited from her grandfather.
Staechelin, this Friday in Madrid, refused any comment on the sale but admitted that the sum far exceeded 6 million Swiss francs (5.7 million euros) in which it was assessed in 1891. “This is not a lot of dollars hanging on a wall, it is art,” he said.
“It is the world’s most expensive painting, Guernica worth much more,” he added Staechelin on the famous painting by Pablo Picasso on the Spanish civil war, permanently exhibited at the Reina Sofía.
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