Two Tahitian women sit close together yet apart, one in a flowered pareu, the other in a high-necked pink missionary dress, a sign of French colonial rule. Gauguin painted it during his first stay on Tahiti, using flat bands of ochre, green and blue. Whether they sit on a beach at all is debated: the bands may be architecture.
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The women's faces are simplified almost into masks, and their heavy, sculptural bodies fill the canvas nearly edge to edge.
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