NEW YORK (AP).- A rare wooden sculpture of a Tahitian girl by Paul Gauguin sold for $11.3 million at auction Tuesday. The “Young Tahitian” bust, last seen by the public in 1961, had been estimated to bring $10 million to $15 million, the Sotheby’s auction house said. The sculpture is of a serene-looking Tahitian girl wearing large earrings and a necklace of coral and shells the French artist collected and strung himself. It’s the only known fully worked three-dimensional bust he made. Gauguin, a post-Impressionist master, spent many years in Tahiti painting the island’s beautiful women, flowers and lush tropical landscape. He presented the sculpture, “Jeune tahitienne” in French, to a friend’s 10-year-old daughter in 1894 after promising her he would bring her a gift from the South Seas. Many years later, that girl, Jeanne Fournier, entrusted a Dominican priest to sell the sculpture.