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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

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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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  • Le Vociférant (The Loud One), 1973

    Jean Dubuffet

    A number of small, irregularly shaped metal fragments are adhered together at various angles to form the contours of a vaguely humanoid figure. Each of these white fragments is heavily edged in black, and most of their interiors are filled with thin blue or red stripes; a small number of fragments are solid white, red, or blue. shape like a hand with three fingers and a thumb sticks out to the left side, midway down.
  • Boys cutting through a hedge, 2003

    Jeff Wall

    Just left of this image’s center, the small figures of two young men emerge from a gap in the largely dead hedge with patches of ivy growing around a chain-link fence that spans across the center of this image beneath an ominously clouded sky. The neatly trimmed grass, sunken headstones, and flower arrangements in the foreground suggest that these men are entering a cemetery.
  • Black Spot No. 3, 1919

    Georgia O'Keeffe

    Rounded biomorphic forms fill the majority of this painting. Those at upper left are blue, those in the bottom half are cream, those at the base and upper right are turquoise, and a sliver of lilac is wedged between dark blue and turquoise forms at top center. Two black diagonal stripes overlap in the center of the picture’s upper half and are held within a pistil-like, white form tinged rose that rises diagonally from the lower right.
  • Untitled, 1960

    Lee Bontecou

    Untitled
  • 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.
  • The Whiteness of the Whale, 1957

    Sam Francis

    The Whiteness of the Whale
  • L'Age d'Airain (Age of Bronze), 1875-1876 (cast executed 1911)

    Auguste Rodin

    This life-sized, muscular nude is captured as if in mid-stride, with his right hand raised to clasp his scalp and his left hand raised in a fist. His mouth is open, and his facial features contorted in what appears to be pain or anger.
  • Maisons à l'Île d'Ouessant, Bretagne (Houses on the Island of Ouessant, Brittany), 1912

    Maurice Utrillo

    Two small roughly defined figures stand in an opening framed by a low wall and several stark houses. The houses, wall, ground, and sky are painted in a limited range of grayish creams and browns. Muted pops of color come in the form of pinkish roofs on several of the homes and green shutters on the home closest to the foreground, which is shown in three-quarter view and fills much of the left side of the painting.
  • Flood, 2007

    Barnaby Furnas

    Long, thick, horizontal strokes of paint ranging in hue from black to bright magenta span the pale blue background of this abstract painting. In the upper right corner, the background emerges behind a light spray and thin drips of red paint. A faint white vertical line, like a narrow beam of light, stretches from the center of the canvas’s top toward the bottom but is quickly subsumed under the horizontal strokes.

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