Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te vaa (Canoe; Tahitian Family) 1896 Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 131.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Gauguin moved to Tahiti (Polynesia) in 1891, seeking to find the simplicity lacking in the “civilised” life of Parisian society. Here he…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te Rerioa (The Dream) 1897 Oil on canvas, 95.1 x 130.2 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Paul Gauguin painted this striking work a few years after settling in Tahiti, a French colony in the southern Pacific, and only…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Dans la vanillère, homme et cheval (In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse) 1891 Oil on jute canvas, 73 x 92 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Prior to his first voyage to Tahiti in 1891, Paul Gauguin claimed—from a…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Rue de Tahiti (Street in Tahiti) 1891 Oil on canvas, 115.6 × 88.6 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The vibrant colors of Paul Gauguin’s painting express his intense reaction to the mysteries of the “new Eden” that…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Atiti 1892 Oil on canvas, 29.7 x 24.7 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Atiti on his deathbed In 1891 Paul Gauguin moves to Tahiti. There he becomes friends with his neighbours, the Suhas family. He feels particularly close to…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Paysage tahitien (Tahitian Landscape) 1891 Oil on canvas, 67.95 x 92.39 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Paul Gauguin went to Tahiti in 1891 in search of new, exotic motifs, but also to escape European civilization, which he felt…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) I Raro Te Oviri (Under the Pandanus) 1891 Oil on canvas, 73.3 x 91.44 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Second version: Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) I Raro te Oviri 1891 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas See also: • Tahiti (French…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Paysage avec un cheval (Landscape with a Horse) 1899 Oil on burlap, 70.8 x 44.5 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis In this scene Paul Gauguin depicted a group of huts and a single wild horse against…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching) 1892 Oil on jute mounted on canvas, 73.02 x 92.39 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1891, after many years without commercial success in France, Paul Gauguin traveled to the…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Parahi Te Marae (The Sacred Mountain) 1892 Oil on canvas, 66 × 88.9 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia This painting of a marae, or Tahitian sacred enclosure, was created on Paul Gauguin’s first trip to Tahiti. The artist’s title—Parahi…