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Paul Gauguin - By the Sea. Fatata te Miti 1892 Like Parau na te Varua ino, Fatata te Miti was painted
during Gauguin's first trip to Tahiti. Its setting, in fact, is quite similar. The two paintings share brilliant pink
sands and vividly colored accents, the brilliant fringed blossoms of the phosphorescing hutu, and on the
left the same unusually shaped tree. These similarities point to Gauguin's use of "documents," the term
he used for sketches and working drawings that he would incorporate into many paintings and prints.
- art-Gauguin.com