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) Nature morte aux pêches (Still Life with Peaches) c.1889 Oil on cradled panel, 26 x 31.8 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 Museum of Art, Philadelphia See…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) L’Homme à la toque (Man in a Toque, Self-Portrait) c.1875–1877 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 38.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Poèmes Barbares (Savage Poems) 1896 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 48.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Gauguin’s model for this painting was likely Pau’ura a Tai, a 14-year-old girl whom the artist described as his “native wife”…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) 1891 Oil on canvas, 113.7 x 87.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Before embarking on a series of pictures inspired by Polynesian religious beliefs, Gauguin devoted this, his first major Tahitian…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Autoportrait au nimbe (Self-Portrait with Halo) 1889 Oil on wood, 79.2 x 51.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A dark-haired, disembodied head of a haloed man with pale, peach skin floats against a red and yellow…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) 1892 Oil on canvas, 67.9 x 91.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Two nude women with brown skin and long black hair stand with their backs to us at a…