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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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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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  • Electric, 1963

    Edward Ruscha

    The word “electric” in all capital, italicized letters spans across the center of this almost square canvas. The letters are painted in a gradient from bright yellow at the top to rich orange at the bottom, standing out in stark contrast against the solid deep blue background.
  • Kindergrab (No. 243), 1999

    Thomas Scheibitz

    Kindergrab (No. 243)
  • untitled (to Donna) 6, 1971

    Dan Flavin

    A square of fluorescent tube lights mounted in white aluminum fixtures sits on the floor in front of a corner of the gallery space. The lights that make up the top and the bottom of the frame shine bright blue light outward. The lights that make up the right and left of the frame cast yellow and pink light into the corner behind the sculpture.
  • June 4-52 (tableform), 1952

    Ben Nicholson

    A series of roughly rectangular shapes of pale blue, green, yellow, and white layer over and under each other across the surface of this portrait-oriented oil painting. A loose geometric patterning in thin black pencil overlays some of the shapes near the bottom center. A small, bright red triangle pops out from near the bottom left corner.
  • No. 15, 1952

    Ad Reinhardt

    No. 15
  • La Vie paysanne (Peasant Life), 1925

    Marc Chagall

    La Vie paysanne (Peasant Life)
  • The Liver Is the Cock's Comb, 1944

    Arshile Gorky

    Abstract shapes loosely resembling animal or human body parts populate this abstract landscape. These forms, painted in many different hues of red, yellow, blue, orange, white, and green, boldly stand against a background in more neutral shades of brown and gray-blue. Thin black lines delineate some of the forms, while others are boundless fields of color.
  • Secrets and Lies, 2009

    Gillian Wearing

    The three stills from this video work feature, from left to right: a figure wearing a mask with the features of a Caucasian woman, a shoulder-length blonde wig, and a denim shirt; a figure wearing a green-gray, gargoyle-like mask and a black tuxedo jacket and bowtie over a white shirt; and a figure wearing a mask with the features of an older Caucasian woman, a short brown wig, and a light blue, quarter-zip fleece.
  • Wall Drawing # 1268: Scribbles: Staircase (AKAG), conceived 2006 (executed 2010)

    Sol LeWitt

    Wall Drawing # 1268: Scribbles: Staircase (AKAG)

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