File:Paul Gauguin, ca.1891-1893, Tehura (Teha'amana), polychromed pua wood, H. 22.2 cm. Realized during Gauguin's first voyage to Tahiti. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.jpg

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Paul Gauguin: English: Head of a Tahitian Woman with a Standing Female Nude on the Reverse   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Paul Gauguin  (1848–1903)  wikidata:Q37693 s:fr:Auteur:Paul Gauguin q:en:Paul Gauguin
 
Paul Gauguin
Alternative names
Henri Eugène Paul Gauguin
Description French painter and writer
Date of birth/death 7 June 1848 Edit this at Wikidata 8 May 1903 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Atuona
Work location
Paris, Pont-Aven, Arles, Tahiti
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q37693
Author
Alex Mittelmann, aka, Coldcreation (photograph)
Title
English: Head of a Tahitian Woman with a Standing Female Nude on the Reverse
Description
A sculpted head in the form of a hollow mask that contains a carving of a standing nude on the inside.
Date circa 1892
date QS:P571,+1892-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(wood carving) 2013 (photograph)
Medium woodcarving, pua wood polychromed with paint, stain and gilding
Dimensions height: 25 cm (9.8 in); width: 20 cm (7.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,25U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,20U174728
institution QS:P195,Q23402
Object history
  • In Daniel de Monfreid's collection from 1894, after Gauguin gave it to Monfreid's mistress and future second wife Annette Bewlfis for posing for him for the painting The Young Christian Girl
  • Until 1951 in the collection Mme Huc de Monfreid, Agnes de Monfreid (daughter of second marriage of Monfreid, married the physician Huc in 1917 (?) and died in 1968
  • 1951, gift of Mme Huc de Monfreid
  • 1951, Louvre
  • 1968, Musée d'Orsay
Exhibition history
Credit line Gift of Mme Huc de Monfreid
Notes
  • Catalogue: Gray 98
  • The head is certainly a portrait of Gauguin's vahine Teha'amana during his first visit to Tahiti. The only other certain portrait of Teha'amana is Merahi metua no Tehamana, although many identifications have been made amongst his other work of the period (Danielsson pp. 118, 126). The figure of the standing nude inside the mask is of Eve, a favourite theme of Gauguin's and suggesting the paradise Gauguin had found with Teha'amana. Gauguin, however, later doubted Teha'amana's fidelity and Stuckey remarks the Eve figure might also represent the fantasies of a temptress, the green eyes perhaps signifying jealousy (Stuckey p. 274).
References
Source/Photographer Coldcreation photographed this sculpture by Paul Gauguin at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 17 April 2013
Other versions
  • Merahi metua no Tehamana
    Merahi metua no Tehamana
  • A photograph by Charles Georges Spitz often reproduced as a photograph of Teha'amana.
    A photograph by Charles Georges Spitz often reproduced as a photograph of Teha'amana.

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Tehura (Teha'amana), 1891–3, polychromed pua wood, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. A sculpted head in the form of a hollow mask that contains a carving of a standing nude on the inside.

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