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Where Do We Come From...

Where Do We Come From?
Who Are We?
Where Are We Going?

Oil on canvas, 1897
139 x 375 cm (54 x 147 ins)

Now you can own a Gauguin reproduction of Where Do We Come From oil painting hand-painted to museum quality and guaranteed for one year.

The Where Do We Come From picture is the largest and most ambitious canvas Gauguin ever painted, and was intended as his final statement.

Back in Tahiti, at the end of 1897, Gauguin was ill, penniless and thoroughly dispirited. His daughter Aline had died of pneumonia earlier in the year, and he had been evicted from his home. In utter despair he attempted to commit suicide by swallowing arsenic, but he vomited so much that it did not take effect.

Immediately before this, he painted this masterpiece, a huge work in which he attempted to draw together the results of his artistic endeavours and psychological and philosophical beliefs. In the event, he considered it as his last testament.

Gauguin described how �I worked on it day and night at a feverish pace... I put into it, before dying, all my energy, so much painful passion in terrible circumstances and so sharp a vision without any alterations that the motif disappears and life wells up from it�.

In the spring of 1898 the painting was sent to Paris where it was shown at the Vollard Gallery. In answer to criticism of it Gauguin wrote �I have tried to put my dream into a suggestive setting, and to interpret it without recourse to literary means, and with all the simplicity the medium allows: a difficult task. Criticize me if you wish for having failed, but not for having tried�.

To his friend, Daniel de Monfreid, he declared �I think that not only does this picture surpass all my previous ones, but I shall never do a better, or even one like it�.

The painting is meant to be �read� from right to left, depicting the cycle of life from birth to extreme old age.

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