Art ScannerThe most expensive Gauguin ever sold
The most expensive Gauguin ever sold is Maternité II: $105.7 million at Christie's New York in 2022. Famous works such as Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, Vision after the Sermon and Tahitian Women on the Beach are in public collections, so they are not for sale and have no price.
- Lived
- 1848–1903
- From
- French
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism · Symbolism
- Worked in
- Paris · Tahiti
Gauguin's famous works and their prices
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?1897–1898 · Museum of Fine Arts, BostonNot for sale
Vision after the Sermon1888 · Scottish National Gallery, EdinburghNot for sale
Tahitian Women on the Beach1891 · Musée d'Orsay, ParisNot for sale
The Yellow Christ1889 · Buffalo AKG Art Museum, BuffaloNot for sale
Spirit of the Dead Watching1892 · Buffalo AKG Art Museum, BuffaloNot for sale
When Will You Marry?1892
Woman with a Flower1891 · Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, CopenhagenNot for sale
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)1891 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkNot for sale
Nevermore1897 · Courtauld Gallery, LondonNot for sale
Arearea (Joyfulness)1892 · Musée d'Orsay, ParisNot for sale
Fatata te Miti (By the Sea)1892 · National Gallery of Art, WashingtonNot for sale
Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les Misérables)1888 · Van Gogh Museum, AmsterdamNot for sale
The White Horse1898
Nave Nave Mahana (Delightful Days)1896 · Musée des Beaux-Arts de LyonNot for sale
Two Tahitian Women1899 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkNot for sale
Aha oe feii? (Are You Jealous?)1892 · Pushkin Museum, MoscowNot for sale
Merahi metua no Tehamana (Tehamana Has Many Parents)1893 · Art Institute of ChicagoNot for sale
Contes barbares (Primitive Tales)1902
The Meal (The Bananas)1891 · Musée d'Orsay, ParisNot for sale
“Not for sale” means a public collection holds the work. Prices are nominal US dollars as reported at the time.
Gauguin next to other artists
Each artist's highest documented sale, from the same research.
Bars are to scale within this list.
About Paul Gauguin
French Post-Impressionist and Symbolist who left a stockbroking career for art and, eventually, the South Pacific. Rejecting naturalism, he used flat planes of bold, non-naturalistic colour and heavy outlines to evoke mood and myth. His Tahitian paintings, though entangled with colonial fantasy, reshaped modern art. He died in the Marquesas Islands in 1903.
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Questions
What is the most expensive Gauguin ever sold?
Maternité II, which sold for $105.7 million at Christie's New York in 2022. Prices are nominal US dollars as reported at the time.
How much is a Gauguin painting worth?
It depends on the work. The highest documented sale is $105.7 million for Maternité II. Works in public collections are not for sale.
Where can I see Gauguin's paintings?
Among the works here: the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Who was Paul Gauguin?
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903). French Post-Impressionist and Symbolist who left a stockbroking career for art and, eventually, the South Pacific. Rejecting naturalism, he used flat planes of bold, non-naturalistic colour and heavy outlines to evoke mood and myth. His Tahitian paintings, though entangled with colonial fantasy, reshaped modern art. He died in the Marquesas Islands in 1903.
Other artists
- Leonardo da Vinci $450.3 million
- Gustav Klimt $236.4 million
- Rembrandt van Rijn $198.9 million
- Georges Seurat $149.2 million
- Paul Cézanne $137.8 million
- Edvard Munch $119.9 million
- Vincent van Gogh $117.2 million
- Claude Monet $110.7 million
- Sandro Botticelli $92.2 million
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir $78.1 million
- Peter Paul Rubens $76.7 million
- Édouard Manet $65.1 million
- Gustave Caillebotte $53 million
- Raphael $47.9 million
- J. M. W. Turner $47.4 million
- Henri Rousseau $43.5 million
- Edgar Degas $41.6 million
- John Constable $35.2 million
- Camille Pissarro $32.1 million
- Johannes Vermeer $30.1 million
- Michelangelo $27.2 million
- John Singer Sargent $23.5 million
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec $22.4 million
- Diego Velázquez $17 million
- Francisco Goya $16.4 million
- El Greco $14 million
- Eugène Delacroix $9.88 million
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot $9.01 million
- John William Waterhouse $9 million
- Mary Cassatt $7.49 million
- Jacques-Louis David $7.21 million
- John Everett Millais $3.48 million