Te raau rahi (The Big Tree)

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Te raau rahi (The Big Tree), 1891. Oil on jute canvas.

Oil on jute canvas · 72.5 × 91.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism

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Museum title: Te raau rahi (The Big Tree)
Artist: Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)
Date: 1891
Medium: Oil on jute canvas
Dimensions: 72.5 × 91.5 cm (28 9/16 × 36 in.); Framed: 96.6 × 115.6 × 11.5 cm (38 × 45 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
Credit line: Gift of Kate L. Brewster
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1848–1903

Post-Impressionism c. 1886–1905

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.