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…
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…