''Nave nave moe'' is an oil on canvas painting by

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 ...

, produced in Paris in 1894 but inspired by his trip to

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three years earlier. It is now in the

Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the list of ...

. As early as 1895 it was displayed at an exhibition at the

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, base of an auction house, under the title ''Eau delicieuse''("Delicious water)". In 1907 it was acquired by the Moscow collector Ivan Morozov. After the Bolshevik nationalisation it was exhibited at the

State Museum of Modern Western Art The State Museum of Modern Western Art (russian: Государственный музей нового западного искусства, ГМНЗИ ''GMNZI'') was a museum in Moscow. It originated in the merger of the 1st and 2nd Museums o ...

. It was transferred to the Hermitage Museum in 1931.

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Paintings by Paul Gauguin 1894 paintings Paintings in the collection of the Hermitage Museum {{19C-painting-stub