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Details
- Dimensions
- 14.75ʺW × 0.1ʺD × 10.9ʺH
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Period
- 1950s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Paper
- Printmaking Materials
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Terra Cotta
- Condition Notes
- Excellent - never framed Excellent - never framed less
- Description
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A beautiful exotic vintage First Edition Post-Impressionist full-color print of painting "Whispered Words" (Parau-Parau) by Paul Gauguin. Comes from a …
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A beautiful exotic vintage First Edition Post-Impressionist full-color print of painting "Whispered Words" (Parau-Parau) by Paul Gauguin. Comes from a First Limited Edition art folio published in the 1950s. Printed on one side. Hand tipped-in on a board of heavy paper. Information regarding the original artwork will be found by lifting the plate. Very detailed. Deep rich colors. Excellent condition - never framed.
Overall 14.75"W x 11"H
Image 10.20"W x 7.90"H
Among the many notes on his life and work which Gauguin jotted down in the loneliness of his hut in Tahiti, there is a passage that seems to have written almost specifically for this canvas: " In order to explain my Tahitian Art, since it is held to be incomprehensible: as I want to suggest an exuberant and wild nature and a tropical sun, which sets on fire everything around it, I have to give my figure an appropriate frame. It really is an open-air life, although intimate; in the thickets and the shaded brooks, those whispering women in an immense palace decorated by nature itself with all the riches that Tahiti holds. Hence these fabulous colors and this fiery yet softened and silent air." - "But all this doesn't exist!" - "yes, it exists as equivalent of the grandeur and profundity of this mystery of Tahiti, when it must be expressed on a canvas three feet square." "She is very subtle and very clever in her naïveté, the Tahitian Eve. The enigma hidden at the bottom of her childlike eyes remains incommunicable. Like Eve's, her body is still that of an animal, but her head progressed with evolution, the mind developed subtlety, love impressed the ironical smile upon her lips, and naïvely she searches in her memory for the why of the present times. Enigmatically she looks at you." less
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