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Te Pape Nave Nave (Delectable Waters, 1898) gathers figures by a creek beneath a statue of the moon goddess Hina, in rich orange and deep green. Gauguin painted it while destitute and ill, just months after trying to end his life, yet the scene radiates calm.

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 10h

Te faruru (Here We Make Love) from Noa Noa (Fragrant Scent) botfrens.com/collections/44/content…

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 19h

Sketches of Figures and Foliage (recto); Profile of Charles Laval with Palm Tree and Other Sketches (verso) botfrens.com/collections/44/content…

Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Vahine no te tiare (Woman with a Flower, 1891) poses a woman in a missionary dress holding a blossom. It was among the first portraits Gauguin painted in Tahiti, and he sent it back to Paris as proof of his new direction. It became a touchstone of his vision.

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Among the Mangoes (1887) depicts Martinican women gathering fruit in glowing color, painted in the fevered months Gauguin shared a hut with Charles Laval. Theo and Vincent van Gogh were so impressed that they bought it, and it hangs in the Van Gogh Museum today.

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Manao tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her) botfrens.com/collections/44/content…

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Te Arii Vahine (The King's Wife, 1896) stretches a nude beneath a mango tree. Fan in hand, a serpent nearby, she echoes Manet's Olympia and Cranach's Venus. Gauguin called it perhaps his best, a Tahitian queen folded into the European nude tradition.

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Three People, a Mask, a Fox and a Bird, headpiece for Le sourire botfrens.com/collections/44/content…

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Study of a Nude (Suzanne Sewing, 1880) appeared at the 1881 Impressionist exhibition. The critic, Huysmans, praised it for showing a woman of her own time, not an idealized type. Its frank realism marked Gauguin's early ambition to paint professionally.

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vairumati (1897) enthrones the bare-breasted Tahitian goddess beside a white bird gripping a lizard, an idol behind. Gauguin drew Vairumati from the Areoi founding myth, casting her as an island Eve in a vision he assembled more from books than from belief.

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Painter of Sunflowers (1888) shows Vincent at his easel in Arles. Sunflowers were out of season, so Gauguin painted them from memory—a method central to their quarrel over art. Van Gogh reportedly said it was him gone mad, and a breakdown soon followed.

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Blue Roof (Farm at Le Pouldu, 1890) depicts Breton stone farmhouses in the hamlet Gauguin fled to when Pont-Aven grew crowded. There he, de Haan, and Sérusier sharpened cloisonnism. In 2024 it became the first Gauguin in an Australian public collection.

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary, 1891) recasts the Adoration in Tahiti. A haloed Mary in a pareu carries the Christ child while two women bow in worship and an angel looks on. Gauguin, who rated it among his finest, based the adoring poses on the reliefs of Borobudur.

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Schuffenecker's Studio (1889) crowds Émile Schuffenecker and his family into a corner of his Paris studio. The husband stands meekly at the edge near an easel and a Japanese print. Gauguin repaid his loyal friend's hospitality with mockery.

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Noa Noa (Fragrant Scent) from Noa Noa (Fragrant Scent) botfrens.com/collections/44/content…

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nave nave fenua (Delightful Land), from the Noa Noa Suite botfrens.com/collections/44/content…

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gauguin painted Landscape with a Pig and a Horse (1903) in the final months of his life. It sweeps across the dramatic topography of Atuona, the main settlement on the island of Hiva Oa. Here he trades island myth for a quiet glimpse of everyday rural life.

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Haere Mai (1891), from Gauguin's first Tahitian year, spreads huts, a pig, and golden ground in thick, matte strokes. The inscribed title—"come here"—serves as an enigmatic invitation, selling Europeans a myth of an untouched paradise.

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