A new record price for an artwork, nearly 300 million dollars, may have been achieved with the sale of a Paul Gauguin ... Post-Impressionist art. Prior to the sale, the Gauguin canvas had been ...

Both Christie’s and Sotheby’s had the same painting in their spring catalogues: Paul Gauguin’s 1885 Vase ... by critics who thought his Rembrandt-style portraits lacked originality.