Two Women
1901 or 1902 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions : 29 x 36 1/4 in. (73.7 x 92.1 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1997, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
Gauguin based this formidable composition on a photograph of two women seated side by side on the stoop of a house. He painted it just before or after his 1901 departure from Tahiti for the Marquesas Islands.
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About this artwork
Two Women (1901 or 1902) by Paul Gauguin, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin ( 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism.
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