Two Tahitian Women

Paul Gauguin

1899 · Oil on canvas · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Size2:3 ratio

Frame

$59Unframed print · made to order

📦 Free shipping on every order — or upgrade to Express ($14.9) at checkout. Most orders arrive in ~4–8 business days (Express 2–4).

🌿 Build a gallery wall: add any 3 prints and 10% comes off automatically at checkout. Browse more →

Giclée-printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper

Ships worldwide in 3–6 business days after production

Arrives perfect or we reprint it — free

Secure checkout via Stripe

About this work

Artist: Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)
Year: 1899
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 94 × 72.4 cm
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Movement: Post-Impressionism

Two bare-breasted women stand close together against a dark green background, one holding a tray of mango blossoms, the other a few flowers, both looking calmly out at the viewer. Gauguin painted it in 1899 during his second stay in Tahiti, and it is among the most serene of the pictures he sent back to France. The poses are classicising, the gesture of offering recalls the old equation of fruit and flowers with the female body, and the figures reappear in two of his large frieze-like canvases, Faa Iheihe in the Tate and Rupe Rupe in the Pushkin Museum. The island here is the Eden of his own writings, a place of ease and innocence that existed more in his imagination than in colonial Tahiti. William Church Osborn gave the painting to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1949.

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

Shipping & returns

Produced in 2–4 business days, then shipped from the facility nearest you. Delivery is typically 3–6 business days (US/UK/EU) and 5–12 worldwide. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

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 Two Tahitian Women 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 Two Tahitian Women painted, and in what medium?

Two Tahitian Women dates from 1899 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 94 × 72.4 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 Two Tahitian Women — two Tahitian women bearing mango blossoms and a tray of fruit, serene against a green ground — 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.

Buy with confidence

The Madten promise

Gallery-grade archival giclée. Rich pigment inks on heavyweight fine-art paper (or gallery-wrapped canvas) — built to last, not a poster-shop print.

Arrives perfect or we reprint it — free. Every piece is made to order; if it shows up damaged or flawed we remake it, no return needed.

Free worldwide shipping. Made & shipped from the facility nearest you — most orders arrive in ~4–8 business days.

Secure checkout. Payments handled by Stripe; we never see or store your card.

Also available as