| Merahi metua no Tehamana | |
|---|---|
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| Artist | Paul Gauguin |
| Year | 1893 |
| Type | Oil painting |
| Location | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago |
Merahi metua no Tehamana (English Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana) is an 1893 painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin, currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.[1] The painting is a portrait of Paul Gauguin's wife Teha'amana during his first visit to Tahiti in 1891–1893. This marriage has always provoked controversy because it was arranged and completed in the course of a single afternoon and Gauguin claimed Teha'amana was just thirteen years old at the time.[2][3]
A sculpted head is also known to be a portrait of Teha'amana. She is assumed to have posed for numerous other paintings of the time, including the celebrated Spirit of the Dead Watching.[4]
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- ^ "The Ancestors of Tehamana OR Tehamana Has Many Parents (Merahi metua no Tehamana), 1893". Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ^ Smart, Alastair (19 September 2010). "Is it wrong to admire Paul Gauguin's art?". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ^ Rodgers, Paul (23 January 2011). "Gauguin's British relative disputes artist's notoriety". independent.co.uk. The Independent. Archived from the original on 23 March 2015.
- ^ Danielsson (1965) pp. 118, 126