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Upon his return from his first travel to Tahiti, which lasted from 1891 to 1893, and was ended early because of financial reasons involving his European family, who he had left behind to go live among what he believed to be the primitive peoples of Polynesia, Gauguin had another burst of artistic production. Still deriving his inspiration from his tropical second home, Paul Gauguin, divided his time between France between trying to sell the art he had produced while in Tahiti and continuing his production of art inspired by the purity he perceived in the native Maori people.
As such, he produced in 1894 this oil on canvas, named by him Nava Nave Moe, as can be read in the bottom left of the painting, which has been translated as either Miraculous Source, Sweet Dreams or Delicious Reverie. Although the variety of meaning extracted from the original language can sound strange, it is more a matter of translators trying to transmit the idea of the painting than the directly translated meaning of the words. The painting spent many years in possession of the famous Russian collector Ivan Morozov, later being donated into the State, and is now in a show at The State Hermitage Museum in Moscow.
True to his ethos, Gauguin creates here a composite of his many cultural influences, in an attempt to blend his Western background with the Polynesia with which he had been enamored. In the background, for example, we can see a group of women dancing around a pair of statues, which represent the native religion. Those twin statues of gods were portrayed many times by Gauguin in the background of his paintings, serving as contextual contrast for the artist’s heavily Christian symbolism.
An example of that that can be seen here are the two women pictured in the foreground of the composition, which represent the choice between vice and virtue. The woman on the left, bearing a halo, which is a Christian symbol of virginity previously unknown in the Pacific Islands, peacefully rests, symbolizing the peace of mind afforded by virtue, while her partner to the right looks with desire at the mango in her hand, symbolizing Eve and the restlessness caused by choice to commit sin. That both women are dressed, the same could be seen as a sign that they are the same person, divided between the two aspects.
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