Tahitian Women on the Beach

Tahitian Women on the Beach

Artist	Paul Gauguin
Year	1891
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	69 cm × 91 cm (27.2 in × 35.8 in)
Location	Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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.

The painting is currently in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, located in Paris, France.

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. In Tahitian, "parau" means word and "api" means new. Thus "parau api" means news. A common greeting is "Eaha te parau api", or what's new?

Parau api, (Two Women of Tahiti) 1892, oil on canvas, 67 x 91 cm, Galerie Neue Meister

Paul Gauguin

Paintings	Still Life with Profile of Laval (1886) Vision after the Sermon (1888) The Painter of Sunflowers (1888) Landscape near Arles (1888) The Flageolet Player on the Cliff (1889) The Yellow Christ (1889) The Green Christ (1889) Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake (1889) Still Life with Head-Shaped Vase and Japanese Woodcut (1889) Tahitian Women on the Beach (1891) Vahine no te vi (1892) Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) (1892) Arearea (1892) Spirit of the Dead Watching (1892) When Will You Marry? (1892) Merahi metua no Tehamana (1893) Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897/1898) Two Tahitian Women (1899)

Other works	Jug in the Form of a Head, Self-Portrait (1889) Soyez amoureuses vous serez heureuses (wood panel, 1889) Oviri (ceramic sculpture, 1895)

Exhibitions	Les XX, 1889 The Volpini Exhibition, 1889

Public collections	Courtauld Institute of Art Hermitage Museum Musée d'Orsay Museum Folkwang Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Pushkin Museum

Friends and family	Émile Bernard Vincent van Gogh Meijer de Haan Charles Laval George-Daniel de Monfreid Camille Pissarro Émile Schuffenecker Flora Tristan (grandmother)

Art dealers	Theo van Gogh Ambroise Vollard

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