Tahitian Faces (Frontal View and Profiles), Paul Gauguin, ca. 1899

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Tahitian Faces (Frontal View and Profiles), ca. 1899, Charcoal on laid paper, Sheet: 16 1/8 x 12 1/4 in. (41 x cm), Drawings, Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848–1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands), Gauguin's almost worshipful appreciation of exotic peoples, whom he believed to be innocent of modern civilization's woes, is stirringly conveyed in this New World icon. At its center is the face of a dark-haired young woman whom Gauguin painted on his second voyage to Tahiti

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Size: 3902px × 5678px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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