Fatata te Miti (By the Sea)

Paul Gauguin

1892 · Oil on canvas · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Size2:3 ratio

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About this work

Artist: Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)
Year: 1892
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 67.9 × 91.5 cm
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Movement: Post-Impressionism

Two Tahitian women undress to bathe at the edge of a teal sea, one already poised to dive, while a fisherman with a spear stands waist-deep in the water beyond. Gauguin painted it in 1892 during his first stay in Tahiti, soon after setting up in a bamboo hut at Mataiea, and it is one of the few straightforward genre scenes from those months. The gnarled tree that cuts across the foreground, the pink and purple sand, the flat fields of green and the flowered cloth are invention as much as observation: a tropical Eden out of Pierre Loti's novel rather than the colonised island he actually found. Bathers in the waves was an old theme from Titian to Courbet, and Gauguin had tried it before, in 1885 and again in 1889. The Tahitian title means By the Sea. The painting is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; 16×24 and 24×36 also available framed in black or natural wood • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) in the public domain?

Yes. Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by National Gallery of Art.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) painted, and in what medium?

Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) dates from 1892 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 67.9 × 91.5 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Paul Gauguin's Fatata te Miti — Fatata te Miti — two Tahitian women stepping into the sea past a purple tree root and pink sand — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Post-Impressionism and The South Seas, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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