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| Keywords: Paul Gauguin, ca.1891-1893, Tehura (Teha'amana), polychromed pua wood, H. 22.2 cm. Realized during Gauguin's first voyage to Tahiti. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.jpg Artwork Creator Paul Gauguin Alex Mittelmann aka Coldcreation photograph A sculpted head in the form of a hollow mask that contains a carving of a standing nude on the inside circa 1892 wood carving 2003 photograph wood carving pua wood polychromed with paint stain and gilding Size cm 20 25 Institution Musée d'Orsay place of discovery object history In Daniel de Monfreid's collection from 1894 after Gauguin gave it to Monfreid's mistress and future second wife Annette Bewlfis for posing for him for the painting The Young Christian Girl Until 1951 in the collection Mme Huc de Monfreid Agnes de Monfreid daughter of second marriage of Monfreid married the physician Huc in 1917 and died in 1968 1951 gift of Mme Huc de Monfreid 1951 Louvre 1968 Musée d'Orsay exhibition history Paris 1906 unnumbered https //archive org/stream/cataloguedesouvr1906salo page/198/mode/2up listed after no 191 as Six Bois Sculptés Munich 1960 no 147 Paris 1960 no 109 Paris 1986 no 246 Washington 1988 no 150 credit line Gift of Mme Huc de Monfreid Catalogue Gray 98 The head is certainly a portrait of Gauguin's vahine Teha'amana during his first visit to Tahiti The only other certain portrait of Teha'amana is Merahi metua no Tehamana although many identifications have been made amongst his other work of the period Danielsson pp 118 126 The figure of the standing nude inside the mask is of Eve a favourite theme of Gauguin's and suggesting the paradise Gauguin had found with Teha'amana Gauguin however later doubted Teha'amana's fidelity and Stuckey remarks the Eve figure might also represent the fantasies of a temptress the green eyes perhaps signifying jealousy Stuckey p 274 accession number place of creation Coldcreation photographed this sculpture by Paul Gauguin at the Musée d'Orsay Paris 17 April 2013 <gallery> File Paul Gauguin - The Ancestors of Tehamana OR Tehamana Has Many Parents Merahi metua no Tehamana - Google Art Project jpg Merahi metua no Tehamana File Charles Georges Spitz - Tahitian woman jpg A photograph by Charles Georges Spitz often reproduced as a photograph of Teha'amana </gallery> http //www musee-orsay fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice html no_cache 1 nnumid 015289 cHash af81495eb2 Tehura at the Musée d'Orsay Danielsson Bengt 1965 Gauguin in the South Seas New York Doubleday and Company cite book Stuckey Charles F with Peter Zegers The Art of Paul Gauguin National Gallery of Art 1988 273-4 The First Tahitian Years 0-8212-1723-2 88-81005 cc0 PD-old-100 19th-century sculptures Sculptures by Paul Gauguin Sculptures in Musée d'Orsay | ||||
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