Vahine no te vi (English: Woman with a Mango[1]) is an 1892 painting by Paul Gauguin, currently in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.[2] It is one of the earliest of about seventy paintings he produced during his first visit to Tahiti and is one of many works of modern art in the museum's Cone Collection.[3]
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Artist | Paul Gauguin |
Year | 1892 |
Type | Oil paint on canvas |
Dimensions | 193.5 by 103 centimetres (76.2 in × 40.6 in) |
Location | Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America |
The painting depicts Teha'amana or Tehura, Gauguin's 13-year-old "wife" and mother of his child. Gauguin returned to Paris before the birth and by the time he returned Tehura had remarried a local man, with whom she brought up the child. The work was subsequently acquired by Degas.[4]