When Will You Marry?

When Will You Marry?, inscribed at lower right with its Tahitian title Nafea Faa Ipoipo, is an 1892 oil-on-canvas painting by the French Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin, made during his first stay in Tahiti and measuring 101 by 77 centimeters. It shows two Tahitian women in a landscape, one in the foreground wearing traditional dress with a white tiare flower behind her ear, read as a sign that she is of marriageable age, and a second woman seated behind her in Western-style clothing, the two figures rendered in the simplified forms and bright, flattened color that mark Gauguin's Post-Impressionist style. The painting went unsold at a low price during Gauguin's unsuccessful 1893 Paris exhibition before the collector Rudolf Staechelin bought it from a Geneva gallery in 1917, and it was afterward on long-term loan to the Kunstmuseum Basel for about fifty years. In February 2015 the Staechelin family sold it privately to Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani for around 210 million dollars, one of the highest prices ever recorded for a work of art, and it remains in a private collection. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/