The Getty Bought an ‘Exceedingly Rare’

Gauguin Sculpture for a Reported $5

Million. There’s Just One Problem: It’s

Fake

The sculpture was thought to be the largest

and most unusual of Paul Gauguin's

sculptures, of which he made very few.

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Tahitiens (Tahitians) (circa 1891). Image courtesy

Tate

A Work in the Tate’s Collection, Thought to be by Paul

Gauguin, May Actually Have Been Done by Another

Artist, Some Scholars Say.

The unfinished work on paper 'Tahitians' was rejected

from the recently published catalogue raisonné.

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