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Subjects : Nude, World culture
Keywords : 19th century, French Polynesia, Neo-Impressionism, flower, fruit, woman
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To fully enjoy «Deux tahitiennes» by Paul Gauguin, we recommend the medium size (77.4x60 cm) printed on hand stretched canvas, with the gilded mouldings - thin frame.
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Deux tahitiennes

Two Tahitian Women is an 1899 painting by Paul Gauguin. It depicts two topless women, one holding mango blossoms, on the Pacific Island of Tahiti. The painting is part of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and was donated to the museum by William Church Osborn in 1949. Although Tahiti is depicted as an innocent paradise, the two women in the painting confront the viewer in a way similar to that in Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863) or Olympia (1863), and follow an artistic tradition of comparing woman's breasts to flowers or fruit. The women in the painting also appear in two other works by Gauguin, Faa Iheihe (Tahitian Pastoral) (1898) and Rupe, Rupe (1899). The painting was attacked April 1, 2011, while on loan to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Due to the protection of the plexiglass, the painting was not [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the post-impressionism style.

 

« Deux tahitiennes » is kept at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

 

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