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

Parahi Te Marae (The Sacred Mountain)

1892
Watercolour, 185 x 229 mm
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge

This composition is probably a complete invention of a mythic place of ancient sacrifice to a lost god. There exists a larger, more detailed painting of similar subject in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.




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