1892, Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903): Tahitian Women Bathing. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975.1.179) Paul Gauguin, Art, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, Artist, Folk, Paul Cezanne, Raoul Dufy, Edouard Manet
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Paul Gauguin | Tahitian Women Bathing | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dreaming of a paradise where he could “listen to the silence of beautiful tropical nights,” Gauguin set off for Tahiti in June 1891. While at first Tahitian Women Bathing resembles the artist’s Polynesian paintings, it was not painted in oil on canvas, but rather in oil on paper, and was begun as a sheet of working drawings

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