Women on the Banks of the River
Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903), Tahiti, 1892
oil on canvas, 43.5 cm x 31.4 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
In this small Tahitian landscape, Gauguin plays with shapes and colours. For example, he has given the washing that fans out into the river clear-cut forms that turn it into almost abstract colour planes.
Gauguin’s first visit to Tahiti lasted about two and a half years and made a great impression. Back in Paris, he gave himself bohemian airs. He decorated his home with exotic objects and held a weekly salon at which he performed Polynesian dances for his guests.
- Object number
- s0222V1962
- Dimensions
- 43.5 cm x 31.4 cm, 54.2 cm x 42.2 cm, 6.3 cm
- Provenance
- Exchanged by the artist with Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum, May 1894; after her death on 2 September 1925, inherited by her son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren, to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 10 July 1962; agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State, 21 July 1962; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973, and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
- artist
- Paul Gauguin
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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