Two Tahitian women sit in a landscape of flat greens, yellows and blues. The one in front wears a traditional wrap and a white tiare flower behind her ear, perhaps a sign she is seeking a husband. Behind her, a woman in a high-necked Western dress raises a hand in a gesture linked to Buddhist art. Gauguin painted it on his first stay in Tahiti.
Look closer
The Tahitian title, NAFEA Faa ipoipo, is painted at lower right. Gauguin often inscribed his Tahitian pictures, though he never got far beyond the basics of the language.
Looks like this
Compared by a vision model
