This is the most expensive artwork ever sold!

This painting of two girls from Tahiti has become the most expensive artwork ever sold.

Nafea Faa Ipoipo (Tahitian for When Will You Marry?), by French artist Paul Gauguin, has just been bought for £197 MILLION.

The artwork was painted in 1892

It was previously owned by a Swiss art collector, who had loaned it to a museum in Switzerland for decades.

The buyer's identity hasn't been revealed, but it's reported to be a museum in Qatar, in the Middle East.

The previous record holder was a painting called The Card Players by another French artist, Paul Cezanne. It fetched £158 million.

From CBBC newsround

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin  7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin was later recognized for his experimental use of colour and synthetist style that were distinguishably different from Impressionism. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Gauguin’s art became popular after his death and many of his paintings were in the possession of Russian collector Sergei Shchukin.

He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer. His bold experimentation with color led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art, while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential proponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. in Wikipedia

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