The Large Tree ☲ Gauguin ☴ Canvas moon Signac captures a huge umbrella

Signac captures a huge umbrella pine casting shade on a green field of grass

in this case extending beyond the top of the canvas

they were superb

with the sun setting behind him

The Large Tree ☲ Gauguin ☴ Canvas moon Signac captures a huge umbrellaThe Large Tree (1891, Le Grand Arbre) by Paul Gauguin depicts a tropical scene of four women in the shade of a large tree while a fifth woman rests in the doorway of a thatched roof hut in the background. The words "Te raau rahi" (Tahitian for "The Big Tree") appear in the lower left under the tree. The painting was one of his first created in Tahiti, where he had gone to escape the materialism of European society, abandoning his family and career as