GAUGUIN, Paul
(b. 1848, Paris, d. 1903, Atuona, Hiva Oa, French Polynesia)

Nativity (Te Tamari No Atua)

1896
Oil on canvas, 96 x 128 cm
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

After the birth of his illegitimate children, the themes of birth and family life appear in Gauguin's art. The present painting borrows a Christian motif to express the artist's experience of fatherhood. The lying native woman with a halo around her head is perhaps the lover of the artist.




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