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in the summer of 1891. He came looking a simplicity that he had failed to find in Paris. The scene of a man with an axe chopping at a dead tree and a woman arranging nets was one that
Gauguin observed in front of his hut. Gauguin referred to this central figure as "Totefa", "Jotepha", "Jotefa" and
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versions of Joseph" although these may all be his own inventions. Gauguin used some of the most potent colours that had been seen in painting up until that point which he explained as his observations of the natural hues of Tahiti and his forgoing of the traditional
European studio procedure.
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335:Siponta De Salvia, Maria (2003).
291:Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
120:List of paintings by Paul Gauguin
914:Landscape with a Pig and a Horse
436:Still Life with Profile of Laval
650:Landscape with Peacocks (Death)
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602:Tahitian Woman with a Flower
698:Spirit of the Dead Watching
682:Fatata te Miti (By the Sea)
594:Tahitian Women on the Beach
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960:(ceramic sculpture, 1895)
491:Portrait of Madame Roulin
467:The Painter of Sunflowers
285:Brown, Daniel S. (2007).
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1228:Paintings in Switzerland
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523:The Schuffenecker Family
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356:Sweetman, David (1995).
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16:Painting by Paul Gauguin
459:Vision after the Sermon
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882:Tahitian Woman and Boy
762:Self-Portrait in a Hat
209:Siponta De Salvia 2003
1129:The Moon and Sixpence
658:Parau na te varua ino
1189:Paul Gauguin Cruises
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1027:, Marquesas Islands)
802:Breton Peasant Women
786:Arearea no varua ino
714:When Will You Marry?
626:The Bunch of Flowers
475:Landscape near Arles
359:Paul Gauguin: A Life
1102:Émile Schuffenecker
1015:Paul Gauguin Museum
507:The Beautiful Angel
297:(3). Archived from
1177:At Eternity's Gate
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866:Two Tahitian Women
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1145:Rebel in Paradise
1060:Paul René Gauguin
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826:Te tamari no atua
794:Le violoncelliste
610:A Man with an Axe
539:The Yellow Christ
515:Fruits on a Table
499:Fields by the Sea
422:List of paintings
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348:978-1-59270-010-3
301:on 2 August 2019.
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987:Exhibitions
979:(1899–1900)
968:Periodicals
925:Other works
853:(1897/1898)
810:Eiaha Ohipa
741:(1892–1894)
587: 1890
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1212:Categories
1062:(grandson)
976:Le Sourire
738:The Siesta
269:Brown 2007
221:Brown 2007
168:Brown 2007
126:References
858:Nevermore
842:Vairumati
834:The Queen
415:Paintings
328:192935840
245:Hohl 1983
233:Hohl 1983
183:Hohl 1983
156:Citations
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898:The Call
483:The Wave
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1008:Museums
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690:Arearea
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