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from 484,00 €Paul Gauguin – Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? – hand-painted oil painting reproduction The largest canvas Gauguin ever attempted is a long, low frieze meant to be read from right to left. The museum catalogues it as D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?, [...]
from 130,00 €Self-Portrait Dedicated to Carrière – a painter who does not return the look Head and shoulders take up almost the full height of the canvas. The painter is turned three-quarters to the right in a dark violet jacket, under which a strong yellow garment appears, with a narrow band of […]
from 108,00 €Brittany Landscape – the brightest thing in the picture is not the sky but the reflection The lower third of the canvas is taken up by a calm river winding from the bottom edge towards the middle. The pale sky, the bare trees and the banks are mirrored in the […]
from 108,00 €Haystacks in Brittany – the museum records the work as a gift in memory Two large brown haystacks stand in the middle of the field, one taller and sharply pointed, the other lower and broad. Below them stretches light green grass with black and white cows grazing on it. A […]
from 108,00 €Four Breton Women – the museum calls this canvas a key work Four young women stand at a low stone wall, talking. All of them wear large white coifs with turned-back edges; one faces us with her hands on her hips and a striped apron, at the left edge one […]
from 108,00 €The Birth – the museum says the Christian motif is not piety Across the lower half of the canvas a woman lies on a pale yellow bed, her head at the left and her eyes closed; over her hips is a dark blue cloth with a yellow ornament, and behind […]
from 108,00 €Two Women – the museum will not settle on a year Two women are painted to the waist, both turned straight towards the viewer. The older one at the left wears a blue-grey dress with a small pattern and a high collar; her face is strongly built up, her hair […]
from 108,00 €Garden under Snow – a canvas from the fifth impressionist exhibition A snow-covered garden in an almost monochrome painting: white, pale grey and bluish, with a few muted green strokes. Below lies an open field of snow with some tufts of grass and a low bush at the left edge. […]
from 124,00 €The Black Pigs – the museum says these figures come back The sky is a strong blue, and from the left the pale trunk of a palm leans into it and opens its leaves. In the middle stands an open shelter with a large thatched roof; beneath it a woman […]
from 124,00 €The Gate – the same wooden gate was painted the same year by a second painter A wide wooden gate of pale palings rises from the right across the lower part of the canvas. Behind it a grassy bank climbs steeply, with pigs grazing on it. At the right edge […]
from 130,00 €Self-portrait (Near Golgotha) – the dark behind him never resolves The painter is shown to the waist, turned slightly to the left, in a loose pale shirt with a rounded neck opening. The face is gaunt, with a moustache and a high forehead, and the eyes stay in shadow. The […]
from 124,00 €Landscape with a Horse on the Road – the fence is the only straight line The lower third of the canvas is taken up by a wide pink road that climbs slowly from the right towards the left. A brown horse grazes beside it with its head down. Immediately behind […]
from 108,00 €Te Faaturuma – the first Gauguin in an American museum A woman sits on the floor with her legs crossed, in a sleeveless white shift, resting her chin on her right hand. Her eyes are lowered. The floor is orange and takes up most of the canvas. At the lower […]
from 108,00 €Café at Arles – the two people in front are van Gogh’s sitters A woman sits in the foreground at a round table with a marble top; a siphon and a glass stand in front of her, and she rests her head on one hand. Behind her a green billiard […]
from 130,00 €Mette Gauguin – the museum’s title is her name alone The woman sits the wrong way round on a chair, her arms folded over the back, looking to the side so that we see her profile. She wears a pale evening dress with bare shoulders and a gathered edge, long […]
from 130,00 €The Boss’s Daughter – the evidence is the wallpaper, not the face The young woman is painted to the chest, turned slightly to the left, looking past the viewer. Her hair is short and chestnut, her face pale, her lips red. She wears a dark brown jacket with white lace […]
from 130,00 €Still Life with Profile of Laval – the vessel in the picture is a lost Gauguin ceramic On a rumpled white cloth lies a large ochre gourd, and beside it apples in red and green are arranged along with one yellow fruit. Behind stands a dark vessel with open handles, […]
from 124,00 €Houses in Le Pouldu – the museum publishes the frame’s measurement too Bare trunks and branches rise across the whole upright canvas, cutting the scene into vertical bands. Behind them stands a long low house with a blue-grey slate roof and a brick-red wall, from which two chimneys and a […]
from 124,00 €Landscape from Brittany – the pollarded trees the museum calls by their name The upright canvas is a landscape without a horizon in the usual sense: the ground rises and places the viewer above the scene. In front stand thick trees with their tops cut off, from which bunches of […]
from 124,00 €Les Alyscamps – the ironic second title the painter gave it The upright canvas is divided by a diagonal. On the right a massive dark green tree rises, and beside it the poplars burn orange and yellow all the way to the top edge. On the left a blue sky […]
from 124,00 €Portrait of Madeleine Bernard – one canvas, two paintings, two inventory numbers A young woman sits turned slightly to the right, her right hand raised to her neck and cheek. She wears a dark blue buttoned bodice with a narrow belt, and over her shoulders is thrown a yellow coat […]
from 124,00 €Te nave nave fenua (Delightful Land) – the winged creature at her ear The middle of the canvas is taken by a standing nude figure with golden-brown skin and long dark hair. With her right hand she reaches up to a red flower on a bush, while her left arm […]
from 124,00 €Landscape near Arles – the first canvas of the Provence months The middle of the picture is taken by a large haystack, shaped as a soft cone in ochre and golden brown. To its left stand low white buildings with grey roofs and dark openings; behind them rises a band […]
from 124,00 €La belle Angèle – the sitter sealed inside a circle The middle of the canvas is taken by a large circle bordered with a dark line. Inside it sits a young woman in a white Breton lace cap and a broad white collar; her dress is dark, with a belt […]
from 129,00 €An Orchard under the Church of Bihorel – a title that promises more than can be seen The picture is filled by two slender fruit trees that grow out of the pale grass and spread their branches across almost the whole height of the canvas. The grass in front is […]
from 129,00 €Faaturuma (Melancholic) – a picture hanging on the wall behind her The woman sits on a wooden chair with a curved frame, turned slightly to the left. She wears a long pink-red dress that falls to the floor and covers her feet; in her lap she holds a white cloth. […]
from 108,00 €Roses and Statuette – a work with two titles On a pink table surface stands a tall clear bottle of water, out of which rises a bunch of white and pale pink roses with dark green leaves. To the right of the bottle stands a small dark carved statuette, seen […]
from 108,00 €Landscape in Le Pouldu – a shut gate across the whole foreground The lower third of the canvas is crossed by a wooden gate of five bars with a diagonal brace. It is shut. To its right rises a stone wall with dense brown-green scrub growing over it. Close beside […]
from 108,00 €Te burao (The Hibiscus Tree) – a foreground made entirely of cut wood At the far left edge a massive dark trunk rises, reaching from the bottom of the canvas to the top. Across the middle of the right half lies a felled tree: its long trunk runs horizontally, and […]
from 108,00 €Te raau rahi (The Big Tree) – the people are detail, the tree is the subject A tree rises the whole height of the canvas: the pale grey trunk divides in the lower third, and the branches spread across the entire upper half of the picture, touching both edges. Behind […]
from 108,00 €I Raro Te Oviri (Under the Pandanus) – two different hands on one canvas Under the tousled branches of a pandanus tree stand two figures. The left one is seen from behind, bare to the waist, with a red cloth around the hips; the right one faces her in a […]
from 108,00 €Interior from the Artist’s Home, rue Carcel – a bouquet instead of a sitter In the foreground stands a table under a white cloth with a small floral pattern. On it a wide glass bowl holds a large bouquet: white, red, pink and deep red flower heads rise almost to […]
from 108,00 €The Meal (The Bananas) – a work that was not painted on canvas Behind a long table covered with a white cloth stand three young people; we see them from the chest up, two looking straight out at us, the third a little to one side. In the middle of […]
from 108,00 €Schuffenecker’s Studio – a painting dedicated to the man standing at its edge The scene takes place in a studio with a large window wall divided into many panes; through it a pale outline of the city can be seen. At the far left stands a male figure in a […]
from 108,00 €The Ford (The Flight) – a horse painted green Two riders cross shallow water. The nearer sits on a horse that is pale yellow-green from muzzle to tail; the rider wears a pink cloth on the head, is turned in profile to the left and has bare thighs. Behind him […]
from 108,00 €A Farm in Brittany – a house with no people in it, and a single thread of smoke The picture lies across and is quiet. On the left and in the middle stand farm buildings with red-brown roofs and pale stone walls; three tall white chimneys rise from the roofs, […]
from 129,00 €Portrait of Suzanne Bambridge – the dress that swallows the figure The woman sits turned almost frontally towards us, in a long dark dress with a small floral pattern that covers her from the throat to the floor. At the neck she wears a broad pale trim, and her hands […]
from 129,00 €The Great Buddha – two openings of light in a dark room The picture stands upright and is largely dark: brown, reddish tones and deep blue dominate. In the middle rises a large carved statue with folded hands and closed eyes, set on a dark blue, folded base. In the […]
from 108,00 €Poèmes barbares (Barbarian Poems) – a signature that stands at the top of the canvas The centre of the picture is taken by a young woman, bare to the waist, with black hair falling on either side of her face. Her eyes are lowered, her right hand raised flat against […]
from 108,00 €Parau na te Varua ino (Words of the Devil) – who is watching in this picture On the right stands a nude female figure, turned directly towards us, with long dark hair and one hand raised to her chin. In the other hand she holds a white cloth. She stands […]
from 108,00 €Mata Mua (In Olden Times) – a single trunk that cuts the picture in two A grey-blue tree trunk rises the whole height of the canvas, so thick and so exactly placed that it halves the picture. Near the top a branch crosses it, running horizontally across the whole scene. […]
from 108,00 €Matamoe (Landscape with Peacocks) – a working day, with two peacocks set in front of it The picture stands upright and is full of incident, and yet the birds are what one notices first. In the lower left corner two peacocks walk across the green turf: the first blue-green, with […]
from 108,00 €Nave nave moe (Sacred Spring) – a Tahitian scene painted in France In the foreground two women sit on a broad pink surface. The one on the left has rested her head on her hand and closed her eyes; the one on the right sits upright and holds a small […]
from 108,00 €Aha oe feii? (What! Are You Jealous?) – a question painted into the corner of the canvas In 1892, during his first stay in Tahiti, Paul Gauguin painted two women on the sand beside water. One sits upright, knees drawn up, turned almost in profile to the right; she wears […]
from 108,00 €Ta matete (The Market) – five figures in a row on a single bench In 1892, during his first stay on Tahiti, Paul Gauguin painted five women seated in a row on a long green bench. Each is shown in profile or nearly so, and several hold a flat fan […]
from 108,00 €Christ in the Garden of Olives – a red-haired Christ and the figures walking away In 1889 Paul Gauguin painted Christ in the garden, in the moment just before the arrest. The figure sits at the lower left of the canvas, bowed forward, in a dark olive cloak, hands laid […]
from 108,00 €Te arii vahine (The King’s Wife) – the canvas Gauguin itemised in his own letter In 1896, during his second stay on Tahiti, Paul Gauguin painted a woman lying on green grass, a red fan behind her head and a white flower at her ear. In front of her, on […]
from 108,00 €Vincent van Gogh Painting Sunflowers – Gauguin’s portrait of a painter at work In December 1888, during the nine weeks Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh shared a house in Arles, Gauguin painted his host at work. Van Gogh is at the right of the canvas, in three-quarter view, with […]
from 108,00 €Tahitian Women on the Beach – Gauguin’s first Tahitian canvas and two dresses In November and December 1891, a few weeks after he landed on Tahiti, Paul Gauguin painted two women seated side by side on the sand. The one on the left is shown in profile, in a white […]
from 108,00 €The Siesta – Gauguin’s Tahitian veranda and an ordinary afternoon Between 1892 and 1894, in his first Tahitian period, Paul Gauguin painted a scene in which nothing much happens: four women pass the afternoon on a covered veranda. One is ironing linen, a second lies propped on her elbow in […]
from 108,00 €Two Tahitian Women – Gauguin’s late Tahitian pair with mango blossoms In 1899, in his last Tahitian years and shortly before he left for the Marquesas, Paul Gauguin painted two women placed side by side and cut off above the knee. One holds a shallow dish of red mango blossoms; […]
from 129,00 €Merahi metua no Tehamana – Gauguin’s portrait of Tehamana and her ancestors In 1893 Paul Gauguin painted the portrait of Tehamana, his Tahitian companion, and titled it Merahi metua no Tehamana – Tehamana has many parents. The girl sits facing the viewer directly, in a blue-and-white striped mission dress with […]
from 108,00 €Arlesiennes (Mistral) – Gauguin’s Arles autumn, painted on jute In the autumn of 1888, during the shared stay with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin painted the Arlesiennes in Arles. The work measures 73 x 92 cm – the museum states height first and width second – so it is a […]
from 108,00 €Mahana no atua (Day of the God) – Gauguin’s Tahitian altar built out of colour Paul Gauguin painted Mahana no atua in Paris in 1894, between his two stays on Tahiti. It records no ceremony he actually witnessed; it is an image assembled from memory. A dark idol stands in […]
from 108,00 €Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) – Gauguin’s turning point at Pont-Aven In 1888, at Pont-Aven in Brittany, Paul Gauguin painted a canvas that falls into two worlds: in the foreground Breton peasant women in white coifs kneel in prayer, while on the far side of the […]
from 147,00 €Paul Gauguin – The Bathers – hand-painted oil painting reproduction A year after the canvas was painted, Edgar Degas bought it. The picture dates from 1897, oil on canvas, 60.4 × 93.4 cm (height × width, so a horizontal format), and it is held today by the National Gallery of [...]
from 132,00 €Paul Gauguin – Young Christian Girl (Bretonne en Prière) – hand-painted oil painting reproduction She is a Breton girl, but the dress is not Breton. The canvas was painted in 1894, oil on canvas, 65.3 × 46.7 cm (height × width, so an upright format), and it is held by [...]
from 108,00 €Paul Gauguin – There is the Temple (Parahi te marae) – hand-painted oil painting reproduction This motif exists twice, and ours is the smaller of the two. Our source is a watercolour over graphite on Japanese paper, made in Tahiti around 1892, only 22.9 × 18.5 cm, held by the [...]
from 147,00 €Paul Gauguin – In the Waves – hand-painted oil painting reproduction A nude figure slips back-first into a wave, red hair falling across her shoulder, and the sea beneath her is green as glass. The work was painted in 1889 at Pont-Aven in Brittany, oil on canvas, 92.5 × 72.4 [...]
from 108,00 €Paul Gauguin – Breton Eve (Ève Bretonne I) – hand-painted oil painting reproduction It is not an oil and it is not large. This Eve is a sheet of paper: watercolour and pastel, 33.7 × 31.1 cm (height × width, so an upright format), made in 1889 during the Breton [...]
from 124,00 €Paul Gauguin – The Bathing Place (La Baignade) – hand-painted oil painting reproduction There is real gold on this sheet. The work was made in 1889 and it is not an oil: the catalogue of the exhibition Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889 lists it as gouache, watercolour, pastel and gold paint [...]
from 139,00 €Paul Gauguin – Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven – hand-painted oil painting reproduction Three girls in Breton dress and white coifs hold hands in front of a low stone wall; behind them lie heaps of cut grain and the roofs of the village. The canvas was painted in June 1888 at [...]
from 139,00 €Paul Gauguin – Breton Boy – hand-painted oil painting reproduction The museum and the conservators do not agree about this canvas to the millimetre. It was painted in 1889, oil on canvas, 73.5 × 93 cm by the museum record (width × height, so an upright format), and it is [...]
from 147,00 €Paul Gauguin – Maternity (Women on the Seashore) – hand-painted oil painting reproduction Three women stand and sit by the sea: the one on the right is nursing a child, the other two carry breadfruit and flowers. The canvas was painted in 1899 at Punaauia in Tahiti, oil on canvas, [...]
from 132,00 €Paul Gauguin – Her Name was Vairaumati – hand-painted oil painting reproduction In the Tahitian account Vairaumati is not the god's daughter but his wife. That difference is what this picture is named for. The canvas was painted in 1892 on Tahiti, oil on canvas, 68 × 91 cm (width [...]
from 147,00 €Paul Gauguin – Three Tahitian Women – hand-painted oil painting reproduction Three women stand side by side against a broad yellow field; not one of them looks out at us. The canvas was painted in 1899 at Punaauia on Tahiti, oil on canvas, 73.5 × 68 cm, and is held [...]
from 139,00 €Paul Gauguin – Spirit of the Dead Watching (Manao tupapau) – hand-painted oil painting reproduction A young Tahitian woman lies on her stomach and glances sideways at us; behind her, at the head of the bed, sits a dark hooded figure. The work was painted in 1892 in Tahiti, in [...]
from 139,00 €Paul Gauguin – The Yellow Christ – hand-painted oil painting reproduction Breton women in white coifs kneel around a cross standing in the middle of a harvested field, and the whole scene is tuned to yellow. The work was painted in 1889 at Pont-Aven, oil on canvas, 92.1 × 73.3 [...]
from 129,00 €Paul Gauguin – Portrait of the Artist with the Yellow Christ – hand-painted oil painting reproduction The painter put himself in front of one of his own pictures. The canvas dates from 1890, oil on canvas, and is held by the Musée d’Orsay in Paris under inventory number RF 1994 [...]
from 155,00 €Paul Gauguin – Nevermore (O Tahiti) – hand-painted oil painting reproduction A woman lies on the bed and looks straight out at us; behind her a dark bird perches, and beside it two figures are talking. In the upper left corner, in capitals, stands the word NEVERMORE. The work was [...]
from 147,00 €Paul Gauguin – The Green Christ – hand-painted oil painting reproduction A Breton woman kneels at the foot of a calvary, a stone cross bearing a greenish Christ, and behind her the grey Atlantic coast opens out. The work was painted in the autumn of 1889 in Brittany, oil on [...]
from 139,00 €Paul Gauguin – Woman Holding a Fruit; Where Are You Going? – hand-painted oil painting reproduction The title is not a question about the meaning of life. It is a greeting. The canvas was painted in 1893 on Tahiti, oil on canvas, 92.5 × 73.5 cm (height × width, so [...]
from 139,00 €Paul Gauguin – Rocks by the Sea – hand-painted oil painting reproduction An ochre cliff rises at the right edge of the canvas, close enough to put the viewer on the shore rather than in front of it. A dark islet lies far off to the left, and between them [...]
from 188,00 €Paul Gauguin – Ia Orana Maria – hand-painted oil painting reproduction Mary and Jesus are Tahitian, an angel with yellow wings stands among the trees, and two women in pareus bow towards them. The work was painted in 1891, in Gauguin's first Tahitian year, oil on canvas, 113.7 × 87.6 [...]
from 139,00 €Paul Gauguin – The Market Gardens of Vaugirard – hand-painted oil painting reproduction Paris, not Tahiti. This canvas was painted in 1879 – fourteen years before Gauguin first sailed for Tahiti and almost a decade before Pont-Aven. Oil on canvas, 66 × 100.3 cm (height × width, a landscape format), [...]
from 139,00 €Paul Gauguin – L'Aven Below the Montagne Sainte-Marguerite – hand-painted oil painting reproduction The river the town is named after. The canvas was painted in 1888 in Brittany, oil on canvas, and measures 92.2 cm wide by 72.9 cm high — a landscape format. It is held by the Artizon [...]
from 139,00 €Paul Gauguin – Winter Landscape (Vinterlandskap) – hand-painted oil painting reproduction Two Gauguin winter pictures are easily mistaken for one another; this one is Swedish. The canvas you are looking at is catalogued by its owner as Vinterlandskap – Winter Landscape. It was painted in 1888, oil on canvas, 72.5 [...]
from 139,00 €Paul Gauguin – Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) – hand-painted oil painting reproduction Two Tahitian women are seen from behind as they step into the water; their pareos are left on the shore, and behind them a man is fishing with a spear. The work was painted in 1892 [...]
from 147,00 €Paul Gauguin – Cruel Tales (Exotic Saying) – hand-painted oil painting reproduction Gauguin's last year. The canvas was painted in 1902 in the Marquesas, oil on canvas, and is held by the Museum Folkwang in Essen under accession number G 54. The title is not our invention: Gauguin wrote CONTES [...]
from 132,00 €Paul Gauguin – Breton Peasant Women – hand-painted oil painting reproduction Two Breton women stand on an ochre path and do not move. The one on the left is in profile, in a red skirt; the one on the right looks straight out at us. Both wear the white lace [...]
from 188,00 €Paul Gauguin – Arearea (Joyousness) – hand-painted oil painting reproduction Two women sit in the foreground, a trunk runs across the canvas, and a red dog lies below. The work was painted in 1892 in Tahiti, oil on canvas, 93 × 75 cm; it was bequeathed to the French state [...]