Frequently asked questions
Which size should I choose?
This work is available in 30 × 40 cm, 50 × 70 cm. As a guide: 30 × 40 cm (about 12 × 16 in) for shelves, corners or gallery walls; 50 × 70 cm (about 20 × 28 in) above a dresser, a headboard or a desk; 70 × 100 cm (about 28 × 39 in) as the centrepiece of a living room or the wall above the sofa. Below the buy buttons you can see it to scale above a 2-metre sofa.
Does it come framed?
The print arrives unframed with a white border, ready to frame. If you choose a black or oak frame, it arrives mounted behind acrylic glazing, ready to hang. Canvases come stretched on a wooden frame.
When will it arrive?
Printed to order at the lab closest to your address. It arrives in 4–8 working days in Spain and the EU, and in 6–12 working days in the US, Mexico and other destinations.
What if it arrives damaged?
Email us a photo within 30 days of delivery and we will send you a new one free of charge or refund you.
Can I send it as a gift?
Yes. At checkout you can write a gift message and ship it to the recipient's name and address. The parcel shows no prices.
About the work
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin
- Date
- 1902
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 131,5 × 90,5 cm
- Collection
- Museum Folkwang, Essen (Alemania)
- Print up to
- 50 × 70 cm
- Reference
- XDV-3435
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Look at the figure on the left: blue sleeve, green eyes, one hand pressed thoughtfully to his mouth. He seems to watch the scene from outside it, almost dissolving into the foliage. That's Jacob Meyer de Haan, Gauguin's painter friend from the Pont-Aven days. Except by 1902, when this was painted in the Marquesas, De Haan had been dead for seven years. Gauguin brings him back to preside over a meditation between two women, one of them the red-haired Tohotaua. Scholars read three spiritual traditions here: Judaism, Buddhism, Polynesian animism. But before the theory, there's something simpler and stranger: a ghost painted in the same light as the living. At what point does a dead friend stop being available as a model?
