Painted during Gauguin's time in Tahiti, Nafea Faa Ipoipo is considered one of his defining masterworks and had remained in the same family collection for decades before this reported sale.
The reported ~$210 million price, first published by Vanity Fair in 2015, would have made it briefly the most expensive painting ever sold — but neither the seller's family nor Qatar Museums has ever officially confirmed the figure, making it one of art history's most-cited yet least-verified numbers.
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