Paul Gauguin - Cabane sous les arbres 1892
Cabane sous les arbres 1892
72x43cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 8.48 million
Auction house: Sotheby’s, New York
Sale date: 02 May 2012
Seller: Otten Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
Paul Gauguin's habitual wanderlust led him to seek out a life of "ecstasy, calm and art", and in Tahiti he was finally freed from the realities of life in a newly industrialized age with which he struggled.