Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903)
Deux femmes (Two Women)
1901 or 1902
Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 92.1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gauguin based this formidable composition on a photograph of two women seated side by side on the stoop of a house. He painted it just before or after his 1901 departure from Tahiti for the Marquesas Islands. (MET)