SHORT TAKES : Gauguin, 4 Other Works, Bring Getty $17 Million at Auction
LONDON — Aksa International, a Japanese conglomerate, paid $6.8 million for Paul Gauguin’s 1889 painting of a Breton boy in a landscape at an auction at Sotheby’s Tuesday night of impressionist and modern paintings.
The Gauguin was one of five works that together brought nearly $17 million for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu. The museum recently sent 15 works to Sotheby’s for auction, saying they represented the private taste of the oil billionaire, who died in 1976. The museum said it will use the proceeds to acquire other works better suited to its collection and public display.
The top price at the London auction was $8.9 million, phoned in by an anonymous bidder for one of Claude Monet’s water lily paintings.
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