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Te Fare (French: La Maison - English: The House) is an 1892 oil on canvas landscape painting by the French post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin.[1]

Te Fare
Artist	Paul Gauguin
Year	1892
Medium	Oil on Canvas
Location	Private collection

The work was created during the artist's initial eighteen-month stay on the island of Tahiti during a period of his opus which has been described as "exuberant".[2]

The painting was purchased in a private sale in 2008 by the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev. The oligarch obtained it for 54 million euros (then $85 million). Then in 2017 he sustained an amore than sixty million dollar loss on his investment when he sold it at auction for $25 million US.[3]

See also

• List of most expensive paintings

References

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