File:Gauguin - D'ou venons-nous Que sommes-nous Ou allons-nous.jpg

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Summary

Paul Gauguin: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Artist



Alternative names	Henri Eugène Paul Gauguin
Description	French painter and writer
Date of birth/death	7 June 1848	8 May 1903
Location of birth/death	Paris	Atuona
Work location	Paris, Pont-Aven, Arles, Tahiti
Authority file	: Q37693 VIAF: 27064953 ISNI: 000000012100026X ULAN: 500011421 LCCN: n79055546 NLA: 35115434 WorldCat

Title

French:

D’où venons nous? Que sommes nous? Où allons nous?

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

Object type

painting

Genre

genre art

Description

English: Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?

Français : D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?

Date

1897

Medium

oil

Dimensions

height: 139.1 cm (54.7 in)

; width: 374.6 cm (12.2 ft)

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

	Native name	Museum of Fine Arts Boston
	Location	Boston, Massachusetts
	Coordinates	42° 20′ 22″ N, 71° 05′ 39″ W
	Established	1870
	Website	www.mfa.org
	Authority file	: Q49133 VIAF: 151846308 ISNI: 0000000122918830 ULAN: 500305147 LCCN: n79058410 NLA: 36527557 WorldCat

Accession number

36.272 (Museum of Fine Arts Boston)

Place of creation

Tahiti

Inscriptions

D'où Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous
P. Gauguin / 1897

References

Gauguin: I Catalogue, 561
L'opera completa di Gauguin, 381
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston object ID: 32558
Art in the Christian Tradition ID: 50284

Authority file

: Q890678
BNF: 13750370t

Source/Photographer

http://lettrines.net/dotclear/index.php?post/2013/02/11/L-homme-entre-civilisation-et-barbarie

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current	05:00, 20 October 2014	1,600 × 600 (196 KB)	Kaldari	Black edges are part of actual painting apparently
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