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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is an 1897–1898 painting by French artist Paul Gauguin. The painting was created in Tahiti and is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Viewed as a masterpiece by Gauguin, the painting is considered "a philosophical work comparable to the themes of the Gospels".

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Vincent van Gogh Painting Sunflowers also known as The Painter of Sunflowers is a portrait of Vincent van Gogh by Paul Gauguin. Van Gogh is depicted sitting before an easel, presumably painting his "Sunflower" series. The work, which is a piece from Gauguin's "Arles Period", was created in Arles, France, in December, 1888.

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Nave nave moe is an oil on canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, produced in Paris in 1894 but inspired by his trip to Tahiti three years earlier. It is now in the Hermitage Museum. As early as 1895 it was displayed at an exhibition at the Hôtel Drouot, base of an auction house, under the title Eau delicieuse("Delicious water)".

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Oviri (Tahitian for savage or wild) is an 1894 ceramic sculpture by the French artist Paul Gauguin. In Tahitian mythology, Oviri was the goddess of mourning and is shown with long pale hair and wild eyes, smothering a wolf with her feet while clutching a cub in her arms. Art historians have presented multiple interpretations, usually that Gauguin intended it as an epithet to reinforce his self-image as a "civilised savage".

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Arearea is an 1892 work by French painter Paul Gauguin. It was one of the works Gauguin exhibited at his 1893 Durand-Ruel exhibition in Paris. It was bequeathed to the French state in 1961, and was in the collection of the Louvre.

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The Beautiful Angel (La Belle Angèle) is an 1889 painting by Paul Gauguin, now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Its title derives from a nickname for its subject, Angélique Marie Satre (1868 to 1932). She was one of three famous innkeepers in Pont-Aven, where the work was produced.

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Self-Portrait in a Hat is an 1893 oil on canvas self portrait by Paul Gauguin, produced following a trip to Tahiti. He shows himself in his Paris studio with Spirit of the Dead Watching in the background. It is now in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

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Aha Oe Feii? or Are You Jealous? is an oil-on-canvas painting by Paul Gauguin from 1892, based on a real-life episode during his stay on Tahiti which he later described in the diary Noa Noa: "On the shore two sisters are lying after bathing, in the graceful poses of resting animals; they speak of yesterday's love and tomorrow's conquests. The recollection causes them to quarrel, "What? Are you jealous?" Gauguin titled the painting in Tahitian language, Aha Oe Feii?, in the lower left corner of the canvas. The painting evokes a sense of Pacific paradise in which sexual relations are playful and harmless.