Gauguin’s “When Will You Marry?” sold for $300 million
An oil painting by Paul Gauguin, the French artist, has been sold to a “Qatari buyer” for about $300 million, said reports.
When Will You Marry? [“Nafea Faa Ipoipo,”] painted in 1892, was owned by a Swiss collector. The sale tops the previous highest price for a painting, a work by Paul Cezanne, which sold for $260m.
When Will You Marry? [“Nafea Faa Ipoipo”] by Paul Gauguin 1892. The image is in the public domain in the U.S.
Carbon Footprint of Your Dollar
To produce a GDP of 77.61 trillion (International Dollars) in 2014, the world economies emitted about 40.33 billion metric tons of CO2 [~ 11 billion tons of carbon.] That is, for every dollar paid (or received), each time, an average of 520 grams of CO2 (142g carbon) was released to the environment!
Based on the above calculations, “When Will You Marry?” has a carbon footprint of about 160,000 metric tons of CO2. [Sources: CASF, MSRB, EDRO, FEWW.]
This amount of pollution is equivalent to Vincent van Gogh driving an economy car 16,000 times around the equator.
See the original calculation for 2007: Carbon Footprint of Your Dollar
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