Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin

1891 · Oil on canvas · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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About this work

Artist: Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)
Year: 1891
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 113.7 × 87.6 cm
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Movement: Post-Impressionism

A Tahitian Mary carries the child Jesus on her shoulder while two women in flowered pareus press their palms together in greeting and an angel with yellow wings watches from behind the trees; the title, painted in the lower corner, is Tahitian for Hail Mary. Gauguin made it in 1891, his first major canvas after arriving in Tahiti, and described it to a friend in March 1892 as a somber, mountainous scene with flowering trees, a dark violet path, an emerald foreground and bananas at the left. He based the poses of the greeting women on a photograph he owned of a relief from the Javanese temple of Borobudur. It is the only explicitly Christian picture from his first Tahitian stay, and it set the pattern of fusing European religious imagery with Polynesian figures and colour. Sam A. Lewisohn bequeathed it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1951.

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 Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) 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 The Metropolitan Museum 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 Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) painted, and in what medium?

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) dates from 1891 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 113.7 × 87.6 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 Ia Orana Maria — Ia Orana Maria — the Annunciation set in Tahiti, a mother with a child on her shoulder beneath a yellow-winged angel — 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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