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Te Faruru (Making Love) (© Fitzwilliam Museum)
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© Fitzwilliam Museum

Te Faruru (Making Love)

Artist: Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

Location: Fitzwilliam Museum

Date: 1894

Materials: coloured monotype

Dimensions: 34 x 26 cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £15,000 (Total: £46,000)

Vendor: Stephen Somerville

Review number: 4823 (2000)

Provenance:
Vivien Leigh; Lady Olivier; Lisseters of Bicester; Barbara Taylor; Gerland Taylor; Stephen Somerville

Description:
Relating to his painting Upaupa, two figures (male & female) embrace in the foreground. I fire burns in the right background. The colours are very pale.

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