The Loss of Virginity ☳ Gauguin ☲ Canvas Size:36 x 24 or perhaps as the large

or perhaps as the large uprooted tree standing as a third figure in the moonlight

illustrating the vastness of the terrain and sky

The dense foreground gives way to a panoramic horizon

though he is not known for religious artwork

The Loss of Virginity ☳ Gauguin ☲ Canvas Size:36 x 24 or perhaps as the largeThe Loss of Virginity (The Awakening of Spring) (1891, La Perte de Virginit, le Rveil du Printemps) by Paul Gauguin symbolically depicts a young woman's loss of virginity. The woman is laying naked in a Breton field overlooking the ocean, plucked flower in her hand, embracing a fox, while a wedding party approaches from the distance. Gauguin's last major work produced before he went to Tahiti, the model was his 20 year old mistress, Juliette Huet, who