Vahine no te vi

Vahine no te vi (English: Woman with a Mango[1]) is an 1892 painting by Paul Gauguin, currently in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.[2] It is one of the earliest of about seventy paintings he produced during his first visit to Tahiti and is one of many works of modern art in the museum's Cone Collection.[3]

Vahine no te vi
Artist	Paul Gauguin
Year	1892
Type	Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions	193.5 by 103 centimetres (76.2 in × 40.6 in)
Location	Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

The painting depicts Teha'amana or Tehura, Gauguin's 13-year-old "wife" and mother of his child. Gauguin returned to Paris before the birth and by the time he returned Tehura had remarried a local man, with whom she brought up the child. The work was subsequently acquired by Degas.[4]

References

1. "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore". Vancouver Art Gallery. 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
2. "Vahine no te vi (Woman of the Mango)". Baltimore Museum of Art. 2007. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
3. "Cone Collection". Baltimore Museum of Art. 2007. Archived from the original on 12 January 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
4. "Woman with a mango (Girl with a mango fruit) by Paul Gauguin". painting-planet.com. Retrieved 14 October 2019.