The Offering
The story
Two Polynesian women sit linked by a small bundle of flowers. One holds a nursing child; the other holds out the blossoms. Gauguin painted it in 1902 in the Marquesas during his final years — and deliberately left it unclear whether the gift is for the mother or the baby.
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin
- Year
- 1902
- Period
- Modern
- Where it lives
- Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
