Two Tahitian Women, 1899, Oil on canvas, 37 x 28 1/2 in. (94 x cm), Paintings, Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848–1903

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Two Tahitian Women, 1899, Oil on canvas, 37 x 28 1/2 in. (94 x cm), Paintings, Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848–1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands), As Gauguin brought his work in Tahiti to a close, he focused increasingly on the beauty and serene virtues of the native women. In this painting, he depended on sculpturally modeled forms, gesture, and facial expression to vivify the sentiments he had used to describe the 'Tahitian Eve': 'very subtle, very knowing in her naïveté' and at the same time 'still capable of walking around naked without shame

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