Paul Gauguin
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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an
Aline Marie Chazal Tristán, (1825–1867) "The Artist's Mother", 1889, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Gauguin's maternal grandmother, Flora Tristan (1803–1844), in 1838
Gauguin with his wife Mette in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1885
Study of a Nude (Suzanne sewing), 1880, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Merahi metua no Tehamana
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Merahi metua no Tehamana is an 1893 painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin, currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The painting is a portrait of Paul Gauguin's wife Teha'aman
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…taken a 13-year-old girl as native wife or vahine (the Tahitian word for "woman"), a marriage contracted in the course of a single afternoon. This was Teha'amana, called Tehura in the travelogue, who was pregnant by him by the end of summer 1892. Teha'amana was the subject of several of Gauguin's paintings…
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A photograph by Charles Georges Spitz circa 1888 is often reproduced as a portrait of Teha'amana, although there is no evidence for the identification.
Charcoal study, c. 1891–1893, Art Institute of Chicago
Sculpted head, wood carving, circa 1892, Musée d'Orsay, Paris