Vahine no te vi
ArtistPaul Gauguin
Year1892
TypeOil paint on canvas
Dimensions193.5 by 103 centimetres (76.2 in × 40.6 in)
LocationBaltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Vahine no te vi (English: Woman with a Mango[1]) is an 1892 painting by Paul Gauguin, currently in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.[2] It is one of the earliest of about seventy paintings he produced during his first visit to Tahiti and is one of many works of modern art in the museum's Cone Collection.[3]

The painting depicts Teha'amana or Tehura, Gauguin's 13-year-old "wife" and mother of his child. Gauguin returned to Paris before the birth and by the time he returned Tehura had remarried a local man, with whom she brought up the child. The work was subsequently acquired by Degas.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore". Vancouver Art Gallery. 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Vahine no te vi (Woman of the Mango)". Baltimore Museum of Art. 2007. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  3. ^ "Cone Collection". Baltimore Museum of Art. 2007. Archived from the original on 12 January 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  4. ^ "Woman with a mango (Girl with a mango fruit) by Paul Gauguin". painting-planet.com. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
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