Vahine no te vi | |
Artist: | Paul Gauguin |
Year: | 1892 |
Type: | Oil paint on canvas |
Dimensions: | 193.5cmx103cmcm (76.2inchesx41inchescm) |
City: | Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America |
Museum: | Baltimore Museum of Art |
Vahine no te vi (English: Woman with a Mango[1]) is an 1892 painting by Paul Gauguin, currently in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.[2] It is one of the earliest of about seventy paintings he produced during his first visit to Tahiti and is one of many works of modern art in the museum's Cone Collection.[3]
The painting depicts Teha'amana or Tehura, Gauguin's 13-year-old "wife" and mother of his child. Gauguin returned to Paris before the birth and by the time he returned Tehura had remarried a local man, with whom she brought up the child. The work was subsequently acquired by Degas.[4]