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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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  • Winter, East Liverpool, 1927

    Charles Ephraim Burchfield

    Winter, East Liverpool
  • Parallel I-IV, 2012-2014

    Harun Farocki

    Five large digital screens hang from the ceiling of a darkened room. Two are hung side by side toward the left and rear of the room; two more are hung side by side toward the right and rear of the room; and a single screen hangs in the center foreground. All five screens feature imagery sourced from contemporary video games.
  • La Vie paysanne (Peasant Life), 1925

    Marc Chagall

    La Vie paysanne (Peasant Life)
  • Bucolic Landscape, 1945

    Milton Avery

    A bright yellow cow, seen from the rear, sits in a grassy field on the left side of this horizontally oriented canvas. On the right, a reddish path leads into a dense woodland, and above the cow on the left, a narrow rectangle of pink sky emerges behind rolling green hills. Short red flowers are visible in the foreground, and a single, scraggly tree juts out of the ground in the upper-left corner. The colors are soft and bright, suggesting a warm, sunny day.
  • Nude Figure, late spring 1910

    Pablo Picasso

    The contours of a figure gradually emerge from a field of muted browns, grays, and greens applied with visible brushstrokes. Dark lines partially divide the background into a patchwork of loosely defined geometric forms. Similar lines more concretely define the figure, who appears largely in profile with one arm raised behind her head.
  • Die Wölfe (Balkankrieg) [The Wolves (Balkan War)], 1913

    Franz Marc

    Die Wölfe (Balkankrieg) [The Wolves (Balkan War)]
  • Son, 1984

    Francesco Clemente

    This vertically oriented painting features portions of a dark tree trunk, branches, and leaves set against patches of light gray sky. Hanging from select branches are four large yellow orbs resembling suns or planets. T-shaped fasteners connect these hanging shapes to the tree.
  • 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.
  • Yellow Movie 2/23-24/73, 1973

    Tony Conrad

    A large, white, horizontally oriented rectangle, edged by a thick, black outline, sits in the center of a sheet of dusty rose colored paper. The top and bottom edges of the paper are jagged, suggesting it was torn from a roll.

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