Sentences with phrase «tahitian paintings»

Gauguin's Tahitian paintings, including Words of the Devil (1892), were met with some controversy, but many considered them more resonant with modern life than the work of Cubists and Fauves.

Meaning «Welcome» in Polynesian, Manava restaurant features a colourful environment straight out of Paul Gaugin's Tahitian paintings.

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Painting of two Tahitian women by an artist whose work won little or no acclaim in his lifetime is sold for nearly $ 300m

Staechelin confirmed to the New York Times that the 1892 oil painting of two Tahitian women had been sold, but did not confirm the identity of the buyer, nor the price.

The painting of two Tahitian girls was recently sold privately by a Swiss collection for a reportedly near $ 300 million, making the sale one of the highest paid for a work of art, according to the New York Times.

With a halting and tender view, they investigate representation in ways echoed by the early 20th - century Indian artist Amrita Sher - Gil's jaw - dropping painting at the Neue Galerie, Self - Portrait as a Tahitian (1934).

Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) One of the great figures in Post-Impressionist painting, famous for his brightly coloured Tahitian scenes.

Reihana's «digital wallpaper» reimagines Cook's pre-colonisation encounters in the Pacific, placing re-enactments by performers and actors of Polynesian, Maori and Aboriginal First Nations descent within a similarly painted Tahitian landscape, in which the historically accurate bumps up against the imaginary and exotic.