Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Nave nave mahana (Delicious Day)
Alternate Title:
Jour délicieux
Image View:
Detail, a child eating fruit
Creator:
Paul Gauguin (French painter, 1848-1903)
Location:
repository: Musée des Beaux-Arts (Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes , France) Inv. B 1038
Location Note:
20 Place des Terreaux
GPS:
45.766846 4.83363
Date:
1896 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Nineteenth century; Symbolist
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
95 cm (height) x 130 cm (width)
Subjects:
genre; human figure; landscape; figure groups; fruit tree grove
Description:
In 1891, Gauguin sailed to Polynesia to escape European civilization and "everything that is artificial and conventional". His works of that period are full of quasi-religious symbolism and an exoticized view of the inhabitants of Polynesia. In 1896, he painted Nave Nave Mahana in Tahiti after he came back from a short stay in France. A group of mysterious young women seem to be gathering fruit from the branches of plants. Their feet are solidly anchored on the red ground. Behind them, we can see a yellow sky. Frozen, distant, silent, with eyes cast down and solemn faces, the figures are perhaps a revealing indication of the artist's isolation and ill health at the time of painting. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-GAUGUIN-ML-NNM-A 04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Nave nave mahana (Delicious Day)