{"product_id":"paul-gauguin-arii-matamoe-the-royal-end-fine-art-print","title":"Paul Gauguin — Arii Matamoe (The Royal End) | Fine Art Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eA man's severed head lies in profile on a white cushion on a low dark-red stand, eyes closed, with red and yellow flowers at the left and a red tassel below. Behind it a woman sits with her head in her hand, a figure raises an arm between bamboo posts, and two more sit in a yellow-lit doorway beside two purple carved figures. A pink patterned mat runs off to the right. The words ARII and MATAMOE are painted at the upper left; signed and dated at lower left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGauguin painted the picture in 1892, during his first stay in Tahiti, and described it in a letter to his friend Daniel de Monfreid. The Getty connects its subject with the death of King Pomare V soon after Gauguin arrived and with a guillotine execution he had watched years earlier, though Pomare's own funeral involved no beheading. ARII means noble and MATAMOE sleeping eyes, a phrase implying death. It was shown at Durand-Ruel's Gauguin exhibition in Paris in 1893 and entered the Getty in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original: oil on coarse fabric, 1892, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Gauguin (1848–1903) gave up a career as a Paris stockbroker to paint, and in 1885 left his wife and five children to pursue it. He led the Pont-Aven painters toward flat colour and simplified form, and worked beside Van Gogh in Arles in 1888. From 1891 he lived mostly in Tahiti and, from 1901, the Marquesas, where Polynesian figures, colour and myth became his subject. There he took girls of thirteen and fourteen as his 'wives': by his own account Teha'amana, whose face recurs in the Tahitian paintings of 1891–93, was thirteen. His synthetist style shaped the Nabis, Fauvism and Expressionism; in recent decades historians and museums have reassessed him for this sexual exploitation of Polynesian girls and for the colonial fantasy of Tahiti his work helped build. His paintings are held by the Musée d'Orsay, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. 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