Door too valuable for comfort

Where are they now?

Somerset Maugham paid $35 dollars for a door painted by

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin. Maugham hung it on his wall, but years later was forced to sell it for millions because it became too valuable for comfort. Meanwhile Gauguin, shown in 1891, had painted the door of his cabin because he could no longer afford canvas. Gauguin died in 1903 at 53 and Maugham at 91 in 1965. We really never own anything. We control it perhaps for a short spell, then it is all quickly over and soon reduced to images on someone's blog.