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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

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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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  • Untitled, 1986

    Olivier Mosset

    This large, horizontally oriented abstract painting is visually divided into two square portions. On the left, alternating red and purple stripes of the same width span the height of the canvas. On the right, stripes of the same color and size run horizontally from the right edge to the painting’s overall center. The lines formed by the stripes are very straight and even.
  • 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.
  • Elinor, Jean and Anna, 1920

    George Wesley Bellows

    Elinor, Jean and Anna
  • Santa Cruz Circle, 1997

    Richard Long

    A number of rectangular bricks of natural slate of varying dimensions are packed together to form a nearly perfect circle. In this image, you are looking down at the work as installed on a light colored parquet floor from a shallow angle.
  • Cupid as Link Boy, 1774

    Joshua Reynolds

    Cupid as Link Boy
  • Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan (The Pool at Jas de Bouffan), ca. 1878-1879

    Paul Cézanne

    Similarly short, distinct brushstrokes coalesce into the trees and shallow, walled pool that fill this landscape. A thin-trunked tree with light-dappled yellow-green foliage fills much of the left side of the canvas. Behind the tree, a low sandy colored wall contains a shallow, rectangular pool of water. Additional trees with darker green leaves line the right edge of the pool, extending to the upper edge of the canvas.
  • Hotel Lobby, 1950

    Max Beckmann

    More than a dozen figures crowd this canvas. Four appear to be seated around a table in the center and the rest appear to be standing elsewhere in the room. The figures’ features are abstracted, exaggerated, and outlined with thick black lines filled with a range of shades of muted russet, turquoise, pink, and green. The black frame of what appears to be a French door interrupts the right third of the composition.
  • Mirrored Room, 1966

    Lucas Samaras

    Mirrored Room
  • Untitled, 1998-2002

    Gregory Crewdson

    This large-scale color photograph captures a mysterious scene staged in a domestic bathroom, which is presented in cross-section. In the center of the frame, a white man, wearing only briefs, is bent over on the floor of a shower stall. His right arm reaches through the drain and is visible in the dark crawlspace below floor level where a pipe would normally be connected. The dim light filtering through a small window on the left evokes a sense of twilight.

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