Paul Gauguin - Orana Maria. We Hail Thee Mary 1891

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Paul Gauguin - Orana Maria. We Hail Thee Mary 1891

Orana Maria. We Hail Thee Mary 1891
113x87cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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From Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Before embarking on a series of pictures inspired by Polynesian religious beliefs, Gauguin devoted this, his first major Tahitian canvas, to a Christian theme, describing it in a letter of March 1892: "An angel with yellow wings reveals Mary and Jesus, both Tahitians, to two Tahitian women, nudes dressed in pareus, a sort of cotton cloth printed with flowers that can be draped from the waist. Very somber, mountainous background and flowering trees . . . a dark violet path and an emerald green foreground, with bananas on the left. I'm rather happy with it." Gauguin based much of the composition on a photograph he owned of a bas-relief in the Javanese temple of Borobudur.