Paul Gauguin - Vase de fleurs et gourde 1891
Vase de fleurs et gourde 1891
58x72cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 4.49 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 2 May 2006
Seller: Mrs. H. Harris Jonas, New York
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
This brilliantly colored, enigmatic still-life, erroneously dated 1886, has been conclusively assigned by the Wildenstein Institute to the period after 1891, when Gauguin lived in the South Seas.