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Te Rerioa Paul Gauguin1897 #369242650
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Te Rerioa depicts two women watching over a sleeping child in a room decorated with elaborate wood reliefs. The symbolic meaning of the carvings' subject matter â an embracing couple, hybrid creatures and vegetation â has been the subject of much speculation but like the women's relationship, Gauguin has left it deliberately ambiguous. He titled the painting Te Rerioa (meaning 'dream' or 'nightmare' in Tahitian), writing to a friend, 'everything is dream in this canvas, whether it be the child, the mother, the horseman on the road, or the dream of the painter.'
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