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Nevermore, 1897 (oil on canvas)

Nevermore. Painting by Paul Gauguin - Bridgeman Images
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Nevermore, 1897 (oil on canvas)

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Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) / French
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The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

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oil on canvas

Date

1897 AD (C19th AD)

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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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