Two Tahitian Women
Colors in this work
Details
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin
- Date
- 1899
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 37 x 28 1/2 in. (94 x 72.4 cm)
- Department
- European Paintings
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of William Church Osborn, 1949
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Subject Matter
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Nude Both · 100%
The catalog subject heading is “Female Nudes,” and the image visibly shows two unclothed female figures.
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Food Visual · 97%
A shallow platter containing numerous red-orange fruit forms is prominently held across the center of the composition.
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Flora Visual · 90%
Dark leafy vegetation-like forms fill the background, with a visible cluster of pink flowers at the right edge.
Visual Qualities
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Asymmetrical Visual · 94%
The composition is asymmetrical: the frontal figure anchors the left side while the second figure leans inward from the right, with blue drapery extending toward the lower right.
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Flatness Visual · 92%
Broad, relatively flattened areas of blue, green, yellow, ochre, and coral organize the image with limited recession into deep space.
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Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 84%
Strong yellow vegetation, coral-red fruit, blue drapery, and green-blue background passages create conspicuous color contrasts.
Medium and Techniques
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Oil Painting Metadata · 100%
The Metropolitan Museum of Art records the medium as oil on canvas.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 100%
The work is dated 1899, placing it within the nineteenth century.
Source & rights
Paul Gauguin. Two Tahitian Women. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 2,884 × 3,722 · Metropolitan Museum Of Art · Available