Tag: Tahiti

Femme tahitienne (c.1894)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Femme tahitienne (Tahitian Woman) c.1894 Charcoal and pastel on paper, mounted on millboard, 54.9 x 49.5 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In 1890 Paul Gauguin wrote of his attraction to the French colony of Tahiti in a manner…

Nevermore (1897)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Nevermore 1897 Oil paint on canvas, 60.5 x 116 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Paul Gauguin painted Nevermore in February 1897, during his second and final stay in Tahiti, an island in the southern Pacific colonised by France. Intended…

Haere Pape (1892)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Haere Pape 1892 Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 67.3 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Fed up with industrialized Europe, Paul Gauguin went to Tahiti in 1891 seeking a simpler, more “primitive” way of life, one uncorrupted by modern technology…

Vahine no te miti (1892)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Vahine no te miti (Femme a la mer, Woman by the sea) 1892 Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 74 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires The MNBA is fortunate enough to possess two paintings from…

Trois femmes tahitiennes (1896)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Trois femmes tahitiennes (Three Tahitian Women) 1896 Oil on canvas, 24.4 x 43.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This panel once carried a note by the artist: “To the unknown collector of my works, Greetings—…

Deux femmes tahitiennes (1899)

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…

Femmes tahitiennes se baignant (1892)

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…

Paysage tahitien (1892)

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…

La Sieste (c.1892-1894)

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…