Day of the God (Mahana no Atua)
The story
A monumental Polynesian deity stands on a beach as three nude figures rest at her feet, the sea breaking into abstract colour patterns behind. Painted in 1894 — one of Gauguin's most ambitious Tahitian-myth canvases.
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin
- Year
- 1894
- Period
- Impressionist
- Where it lives
- Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
