This is a photo by the photographer Lucien Gauthier entitled "Vahine Tahiti." The painting is currently in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, located in Paris, France. The painting was done Oil on canvas and measures 37 x 28 1/2 in(94 x 72.4 cm).It delineates two topless women, one holding mango blooms, on the Pacific Island of Tahiti. Two Tahitian Women is a painting by Paul Gauguin in the year 1899. Believe it or not, there are a lot of beautiful women in Hawaii. The celebrated French painting Tahitian Women on the Beach by Paul Gauguin is just one of those images that bring the distant cultures closer to us. Only a few minutes flight away from Bora Bora, Huahine boasts a peaceful and calm ambience, ideal for romance… Imagine your vacation lying along the bright blue lagoons and deserted white sandy beaches. Dreaming of a paradise where he could “listen to the silence of beautiful tropical nights,” Gauguin set off for Tahiti in June 1891. The painting is currently in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, located in Paris, France.. He spent the last ten years of his life in French […] Paul Gauguin - Tahitian Women on the Beach. Paintings of Tahitian Women by Paul Gauguin Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist who was not appreciated until after his death. Tahitian peasants and workers call themselves the 'true Tahitians' (Ta'ata Tahiti Mau) to distinguish from part-Europeans (Ta'ata 'afa Popa'a). Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and a style that was distinctly different from Impressionism. 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. Three women writers - Michou Chaze, Chantal Spitz and Vaitiare explore the problems of Tahitian identification in contemporary French Polynesia. So many, in fact, that we had trouble making a list of only 50 of Hawaii's hottest ladies. Immediately after setting sixteen men ashore in Tahiti in September 1789, Fletcher Christian, eight other crewmen, six Tahitian men, and 18 women, one with a baby, set sail in the Bounty hoping to elude the Royal Navy. It was taken in 1910, so almost 20 years after Gauguin's first trip to Tahiti, however, it still beautifully represents what women looked like on the island at this time. In Tahitian, "parau" means word and "api" means new. HUAHINE, the island of women, suave and seductive. As one of the most important among the Post-Impressionist artists, Paul Gauguin experimented with symbolism and color. Or its women. The artist wanted "to live there in ecstasy, calm and art". Buy Women`s Tahitian Women on the beach by paul gauguin Art Socks by Samui: Shop top fashion brands Socks at Amazon.com FREE DELIVERY and Returns possible on eligible purchases On Bora Bora (or Pora Pora as it's pronounced in Tahitian because there's no B in their alphabet), the loved-up couples are ubiquitous. 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. Femmes de Tahiti [Tahitian Women] In 1891, Gauguin went to Tahiti, an island he imagined to be a primitive paradise. While at first Tahitian Women Bathing resembles the artist’s Polynesian paintings, it was not painted in oil on canvas, but rather in oil on paper, and was begun as a sheet of working drawings.