Paul Gauguin - Te fare Hymenee. La maison des chants 1892
Te fare Hymenee. La maison des chants 1892
51x90cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 8.44 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 6 May 2008
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
Gauguin painted Te fare hymenee, La maison des chants in 1892, probably in the fall of that year, during his first stay in Tahiti, which lasted almost exactly two years, from 9 June 1891 to 4 June 1893.