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Nevermore, 1897 (oil on canvas)

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COU510
Image title
Nevermore, 1897 (oil on canvas)
Artist
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) / French
Location
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Medium
oil on canvas
Date
1897 AD (C19th AD)
Dimensions
60.5x116 cms
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The two figures in the background and the ‘bird of the devil that is keeping watch’, as Gauguin called it, seem to be conspiring against the reclining woman. She lies awake, perhaps conscious of being watched. The title evokes Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in which a poet, driven mad by the loss of his love, hears a raven repeating endlessly ‘Nevermore’. Here, Gauguin suggests the loss of innocence. He was deeply disappointed by Tahiti, where he had moved from Paris, hoping to find a primitive and unspoilt paradise. Instead, he found a society marred by corruption and colonialism.

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19th century / art / colour / woman / France / Europe / bed / furniture / nudity / painting / oil painting / reclining / Gauguin Paul (1848-1903) / painter / artist / mzpainting / Post-Impressionism / art movement
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