Paul Gauguin · 1892
Arii Matamoe (The Royal End)
Paul Gauguin
Arii Matamoe (The Royal End)
1892
A severed head rests on a white cushion inside a room filled with saturated red, yellow, green, and blue patterns. Gauguin constructed this symbolic image in Tahiti, combining death, ceremony, and decorative color rather than recording an observed event. Source: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/109CGS (CC0 image).
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