Year 1891 Artist Paul Gauguin Location Musée d'Orsay Genre History painting | Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 61 cm x 91 cm Created 1891 Media Oil paint | |
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Tahitian Women on the Beach (French: Femmes de Tahiti) is an 1891 painting by Paul Gauguin. The painting depicts two women on the Pacific island of Tahiti on the beach.
The painting is currently in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, located in Paris, France.
In 1892 Gauguin painted a similar painting Parau api, (Two Women of Tahiti) which is in the collection of the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden. In Tahitian, "parau" means word and "api" means new. Thus "parau api" means news. A common greeting is "Eaha te parau api", or what's new?
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