Musée d’Orsay · 1890
Tahitian Women on the Beach
Paul Gauguin
Gauguin painted the Tahiti he wished still existed rather than the one already reshaped by French colonial rule, using flattened, non-European colour that deliberately rejects Western perspective.
Why it matters
Gauguin painted the Tahiti he wished still existed rather than the one already reshaped by French colonial rule, using flattened, non-European colour that deliberately rejects Western perspective.
Look closer
Compare the strong outline around each figure to the softer brushwork of Impressionist rooms elsewhere — Gauguin is deliberately going the opposite direction.
Painted during Gauguin's first trip to Tahiti, part of the body of work that made him a founder of Symbolist and Post-Impressionist painting.
Value context
ELYIO places this work in an indicative editorial context of €85–120 million.
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