Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is a 1897–98 painting by French artist Paul Gauguin. The painting was created in Tahiti, and is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Viewed as a masterpiece by Gauguin, the painting is considered "a philosophical work comparable to the themes of the Gospels".
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Eve-like figure picking a fruit
Two sorrowful women walking
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes's Inter artes et naturam
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 influential practitioner of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. While only moderately successful during his lifetime, Gauguin has since been recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism.
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