Te Fare (French: ''La Maison''; English: The House) is an 1892
oil on canvas landscape painting by the French
Post-Impressionist
Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...
artist
Paul Gauguin.
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".
The painting was purchased in a private sale in 2008 by the Russian billionaire oligarch
Dmitry Rybolovlev
Dmitry Yevgenyevich Rybolovlev (russian: Дмитрий Евгеньевич Рыболовлев; ; born 22 November 1966) is a Russian oligarch, billionaire businessman, and investor.
Rybolovlev became chairman of the Russian fertilizer prod ...
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.
See also
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List of most expensive paintings
References
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1892 paintings
Paintings by Paul Gauguin