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How much is Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? worth?

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is not for sale: it is held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, so it has no market price. The closest guide is Gauguin's highest documented sale: $105.7 million for Maternité II, at Christie's New York in 2022.

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Date: 1897–1898
Medium: Oil on canvas
Held by: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gauguin's record$106MMaternité II · 2022

About the painting

Painted in Tahiti and intended by Gauguin as his philosophical masterpiece, this large panorama is meant to be read from right to left, tracing life from birth to old age. Its title is inscribed in the upper-left corner. It is held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Gauguin next to other famous artists

Each artist's highest documented sale, from the same research. Gauguin: $105.7 million for Maternité II, in 2022.

Cézanne$138MLa Montagne Sainte-Victoire · 2022
Munch$120MThe Scream · 2012
Van Gogh$117MVerger avec cyprès (Orchard with Cypresses) · 2022
Monet$111MMeules (Haystacks) · 2019
Gauguin$106MMaternité II · 2022
Botticelli$92.2MPortrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel · 2021
Renoir$78.1MBal du moulin de la Galette · 1990
Rubens$76.7MMassacre of the Innocents · 2002
Manet$65.1MLe Printemps · 2014

Nominal US dollars as reported at the time of sale, buyer's premium included where the source includes it.

Why it has no price

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Works in public collections are not sold, so no one can put a market price on them. Sale records of other works by the same artist are the closest guide to what it would fetch.

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Questions

How much is Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? worth?

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is not for sale: it is held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, so it has no market price. The closest guide is Gauguin's highest documented sale: $105.7 million for Maternité II, at Christie's New York in 2022.

Is Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? for sale?

No. It is held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Works in public collections are not sold, so they have no market price.

What is Gauguin's most expensive work?

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.

Where is Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going??

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897–1898, oil on canvas) is held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.