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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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  • Numbers in Color, 1958-1959

    Jasper Johns

    Numbers in Color
  • La Source de la Loue (The Source of the Loue), ca. 1864

    Gustave Courbet

    The dark mouth of a cave fills the center of this image. It is framed in the upper portion of the canvas by an arch of highly textured rocks in shades of light brown flecked with touches of cool red, pink, and blue. Dark water that becomes white foam as it flows over boulders at the bottom edge of the painting flows forth from the cave entrance.
  • 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.
  • Saw and Sawed, 1969

    Neil Jenney

    A chainsaw with a long, gray rounded blade and yellow motor marked with the letter M just above its handle rests in a field of dark green brushstrokes evocative of thick grass between a section of newly cut tree trunk is lying on its side on the left and a short, brown tree stump on the right. A black border runs around the image, and the words SAW AND SAWED appear in white capital letters at bottom center.
  • Flowers in a Vase, 1909

    Henri Rousseau

    Flowers in a Vase
  • Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching), 1892

    Paul Gauguin

    Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching)
  • Buffalo Newsboy, 1853

    Thomas Le Clear

    Buffalo Newsboy
  • Dream Displacement, 1976

    Paul Sharits

    Dream Displacement
  • La Fumée (Smoke), 1912

    Fernand Léger

    La Fumée (Smoke)

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