"The 50 Paintings" Project

Painting # 29

"When will you marry " by Paul Gauguin

 

125 years ago , Paul Gauguin , a French artist painted this 40 inches by 30 inches frame.

He went to Tahiti island for the first time hoping to find an Eden Garden like paradise where he could create beautiful art...

but he was disappointed to see the after effects of European colonisation that had stripped the island of its original culture.

Nevertheless he painted beautiful pictures of the Tahitian men, women and children...

Thats what a good artist does...

He discovers beauty where it is not and goes on to give it life on his canvas.

But the main reason it attracted my attention was ....of course the beautiful color scheme, 

.....the white flower behind the girls ear which signifies that she seeks to get married...

Well this painting is the most expensive painting ever sold!

It has been sold in 2015 by a Swiss foundation to the sister of Qatar's ruling Emir!

Price ?

USD 300 million dollars

(I just multiplied it with the current rate and it comes to an absurd amount..

19,80,00,00,000  (Sorry I have run out of space :) )

Like......what !