''Objet décoratif carré avec dieux tahitiens'' (''Square Ornament with Tahitian gods'') is an 1893-1895

terracotta Terracotta, terra cotta, or terra-cotta (; ; ), in its material sense as an earthenware substrate, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic where the fired body is porous. In applied art, craft, construction, and architecture, terracotta ...

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Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinct fr ...

, now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.Objet décoratif carré avec dieux tahitiens
. Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 12 September 2015. It depicts Tahitian goddesses on both sides; one the woman is alert and confronting the viewer, on the other the goddess appears to be at rest and sleeping.

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