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  4. Noa Noa, Voyage de Tahiti

Paul Gauguin

French, 1848-1903

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Noa Noa, Voyage de Tahiti, 1926

Artwork Details

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book

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Credit

James G. Forsyth Fund, 1973

Accession ID

1973:9

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Work Type:

Book

Information may change due to ongoing research. Glossary of Terms

Other Works by This Artist

  • Les Laveuses (The Washer Women) from the Volpini Suite, 1889

    Paul Gauguin

    Les Laveuses (The Washer Women) from the Volpini Suite
  • Le Christ jaune (The Yellow Christ), 1889

    Paul Gauguin

    Le Christ jaune (The Yellow Christ)
  • Carved "Coco de Mer", ca. 1901-1903

    Paul Gauguin

    Carved "Coco de Mer"
  • Les drames de la mer, Bretagne (Dramas of the Seas, Brittany) from the Volpini Suite, 1889

    Paul Gauguin

    Les drames de la mer, Bretagne (Dramas of the Seas, Brittany) from the Volpini Suite
  • Bretonnes à la barrière (Breton Women Beside a Fence) from the Volpini Suite, 1889

    Paul Gauguin

    Bretonnes à la barrière (Breton Women Beside a Fence) from the Volpini Suite
  • Hina, before 1893 (cast posthumously from wood original)

    Paul Gauguin

    Hina
  • Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching), 1892

    Paul Gauguin

    Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching)

Collection Highlights

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  • Wehgeweihtes Kind (Child Consecrated to Suffering), 1935

    Paul Klee

    Wehgeweihtes Kind (Child Consecrated to Suffering)
  • Light Matrix, 2005

    Leo Villareal

    Small white dots of varying brightness speckle a wall of ten panels of dark-colored glass as seen from the outside. These dots seem to fit into a matrix of horizontal and vertical rows but without a discernable pattern. This wall of windows only fills the bottom half of the image, and a sky filled with ominously dark clouds is visible above.
  • Baby Girl, 1963

    Marisol

    Baby Girl
  • Karma, 2010

    Do Ho Suh

    Against the white marbled columned exterior of the museum, a life-size muscular male nude, his arms hanging down on either side of his body, stands upright on a metal base. Sitting on his shoulders are a series of identical male nudes squatting one on top of the another, each one smaller than the one below. Each figure holds his hands over the eyes of the figure beneath him.
  • The Inverted Sink, 1985

    Robert Gober

    A large white plaster sculpture that takes the form of a thick, inverted V hangs from a blue-gray wall. The apex of the V comes to a sharp point whereas the left and right corners are curved.
  • Symphony Orchestra, 1916

    Man Ray

    Symphony Orchestra
  • Untitled, 1969

    Donald Judd

    Ten identical boxes industrially fabricated out of galvanized iron and orange Plexiglas protrude seemingly weightlessly from the wall in a vertical stack. Each box is separated from the unit above and below by a space equal to its height. When lit from above, the sculpture casts a dramatic pattern of orange and gray shadows on the adjacent walls and floor.
  • SP273, 2014

    Sterling Ruby

    SP273
  • Civil Tapestry 5, 2012

    Theaster Gates

    This large-scale wall-mounted sculpture features forty-one sections of fire hose of equal size laid vertically side-by-side. From left to right, the sections of fire hose progressively appear more worn. The dominant color of the fabric gradually transitions from yellow to tones of gray. Some sections of the fire hose are stamped with black letters spelling out the original manufacturer specifications.

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