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…