Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Deux femmes tahitiennes (Two Tahitian Women) 1899 Oil on canvas, 94 x 72.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The canvases that Gauguin sent back to France from the South Seas reflect the license he exercised…
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…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Femmes tahitiennes se baignant (Tahitian Women Bathing) 1892 Oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 111.12 x 89.21 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dreaming of a paradise where he could “listen to the silence of…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Paysage tahitien (Tahitian Landscape) 1892 Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 47.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Although the authorship of this picture was once questioned, cleaning and reexamination have securely demonstrated that it is one…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Nature morte avec théière et fruits (Still Life with Teapot and Fruit) 1896 Oil on canvas, 47.6 x 66 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York One of Gauguin’s most treasured possessions was a painting by Cézanne,…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) La Sieste (The Siesta) c.1892–1894 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The unaffected grace and communal ease of Tahitian women impressed Gauguin enormously. The artist worked on this painting over…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin 1888 Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 50.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA In early 1888, Van Gogh moved to Arles in the south of France, where he hoped to establish an…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Nature morte avec pommes, une poire et une cruche en forme de tête (Still Life with Apples, a Pear, and a Ceramic Portrait Jug) 1889 Oil on cradled panel, 28.6 x 36.2 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Parahi te marae (There Is the Temple) c.1892 Watercolor over graphite on Japanese paper, 18.5 x 22.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Compare: Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Parahi Te Marae 1892 Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia See also: • Tahiti (French…