''Vahine no te vi'' (
English: ''Woman with a Mango''
) is an 1892 painting by
Paul Gauguin, currently in the collection of the
Baltimore Museum of Art.
It is one of the earliest of about seventy paintings he produced during his first visit to Tahiti and is one of many works of modern art in the museum's
Cone Collection.
The painting depicts
Teha'amana
''Merahi metua no Tehamana'' (English ''Tehamana Has Many Parents'' or ''The Ancestors of Tehamana'') is an 1893 painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin, currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The painting is a portrait ...
or Tehura, Gauguin's 13-year-old "wife" and mother of his child. Gauguin returned to Paris before the birth and by the time he returned Tehura had remarried a local man, with whom she brought up the child. The work was subsequently acquired by
Degas.
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