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Nursing mother. Gauguin Cook Islands Stamp 1967

Breastfeeding mother, Motherhood II, Maternity, Gauguin. Michel 170-5, Yvert 160-5.

Dimensions: 51 x 42 mm

SectionPhilately
MaterialPaper
ContinentOceania
Year1967

Maternity II, was painted in 1899 during the second stay in Tahiti of the French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) on the occasion of the child his Polynesian lover gave birth to. It was sold by Sotheby's New York to a private individual for $39 million in 2004.
Another similar version from the same year is kept at the Hermitage.

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Maternity II, was painted in 1899 during the second stay in Tahiti of the French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) on the occasion of the child his Polynesian lover gave birth to. It was sold by Sotheby's New York to a private individual for $39 million in 2004.
Another similar version from the same year is kept at the Hermitage.