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…
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) 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…
Tahiti in art: Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Dans la vanillère, homme et cheval 1891 Guggenheim Museum, New York Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Femmes de Tahiti, ou Sur la plage 1891 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) I Raro te Oviri I 1891 Minneapolis…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) I Raro te Oviri (Under the Pandanus) 1891 Oil on canvas, 67.31 x 90.8 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas In his mid-thirties, Paul Gauguin abandoned his life as a stockbroker to become an artist. He sought to…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Femmes de Tahiti, ou Sur la plage (Tahitian Women on the Beach) 1891 Oil on canvas, 69 x 91.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris In 1891, Gauguin went to Tahiti, an island he imagined to be a primitive paradise. The…
(1848–1903) Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin The artist’s works: L’Homme à la toque c.1875–1877 Fogg Museum, Cambridge Nature morte aux huîtres 1876 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Au poulailler c.1878 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Portrait d’homme c.1880 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Le…