Vahine no te vi explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore. 2012. Vancouver Art Gallery. 10 October 2014.
  2. Web site: Vahine no te vi (Woman of the Mango). 2007. Baltimore Museum of Art. 11 October 2014.
  3. Web site: Cone Collection. 2007. Baltimore Museum of Art. 11 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20120112085802/http://www.artbma.org/collection/overview/cone.html. 12 January 2012. dead. dmy-all.
  4. Web site: Woman with a mango (Girl with a mango fruit) by Paul Gauguin. painting-planet.com. 14 October 2019.