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Gauguin, c. 1895, playing a harmonium at Alphonse Mucha's studio at rue de la Grande-Chaumière, Paris (Mucha photo) Paul Gauguin, 1894, Oviri (Sauvage), partially glazed stoneware, 75 x 19 x 27 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. "The theme of Oviri is death, savagery, wildness. Oviri stands over a dead she-wolf, while crushing the life out of her cub."
Spirit of the Dead Watching (Manao tupapau) is an 1892 oil on burlap canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, depicting a nude Tahitian girl lying on her stomach. An old woman is seated behind her. Gauguin said the title may refer to either the girl imagining the ghost, or the ghost imagining her. [1] [a]
Petukhov, senior researcher at the Pushkin Museum, believes that this image was borrowed by Gauguin from the Parthenon frieze, photographs of which Gauguin took with him to Tahiti, [3] whereas Bengt Danielsson believes the model was Gaston Pia, a Tahitian school janitor from the village of Paea, 21 kilometres from Papeete. [4]
The Siesta (Paul Gauguin) Spirit of the Dead Watching; Still Life with a Sketch after Delacroix; Still Life with Exotic Birds; Still Life with Head-Shaped Vase and Japanese Woodcut; Still Life with Profile of Laval; Study of a Nude
The death of PÅmare V not long after Gauguin's arrival, as well as Gauguin's witnessing of a public execution by guillotine several years earlier, are both thought to have informed the work; [1] Gauguin would later write in Noa Noa , a collage book which includes a photograph of Arii Matamoe (Noa Noa was compiled after Gauguin's stay in Tahiti ...
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) was a leading 19th-century Post-Impressionist artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist and writer.His bold experimentation with color directly influenced modern art in the 20th century while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the ...
Study of a Nude, or Suzanne Sewing is an 1880 painting made by Paul Gauguin in Paris. It is currently in the collection of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The painting depicts a young woman who is arranging a garment in undisguised nakedness.
Still Life with Exotic Birds (1902) by Paul Gauguin. Still Life with Exotic Birds is an oil on canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, produced in Atuona on Hiva-Oa in the Marquesas Islands, in 1902. It is held in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow. It is signed "Paul Gauguin 1902" at bottom left, with the inscription "Oiseaux morts" (dead birds) on the ...