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Compare the standing woman’s profile with the two seated women at the left, then find the smaller figures near and beyond the house.
Women of different ages occupy a yard beside a house in this 1896 canvas. Gauguin combines details of daily life with a deliberately stylized setting. The questioning title does not establish who is angry or whom it addresses, so it cannot securely explain the figures’ feelings. Their separated poses leave the relationships within the group open.
Oil on jute canvas · 95.3 × 130.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- No te aha oe riri (Why Are You Angry?)
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)
- Date
- 1896
- Medium
- Oil on jute canvas
- Dimensions
- 95.3 × 130.6 cm (37 1/2 × 51 3/8 in.); Framed: 116.6 × 153.1 × 6.7 cm (45 7/8 × 60 1/4 × 2 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.