Two Women

Paul Gauguin

1901 or 1902 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

Gauguin based this formidable composition on a photograph of two women seated side by side on the stoop of a house. He painted it just before or after his 1901 departure from Tahiti for the Marquesas Islands.

Artist

Paul Gauguin

Date

1901 or 1902

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1997, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002