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Getty Lands a Morbid Gauguin

LA museum buys painting of decapitation scene after 8-year search

By Daniel Kibblesmith, Newser User

Posted Mar 12, 2008 2:53 PM CDT

(Newser) – The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired an 1892 work by Paul Gauguin the Los Angeles institution's curator calls "the most famous painting by Gauguin that no one has seen," the Los Angeles Times reports. Arii Matamoe (The Royal End)—bought from a... Read full story »

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