''Arearea'' is an 1892 work by French painter
Paul Gauguin. It was one of the works Gauguin exhibited at his 1893
Durand-Ruel
Paul Durand-Ruel (31 October 1831, Paris – 5 February 1922, Paris) was a French art dealer associated with the Impressionists and the Barbizon School. Being the first to support artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste ...
exhibition in Paris.
It was bequeathed to the French state in 1961, and was in the collection of the
Louvre. From 1986, the painting has been in the collection of the
Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art ...
.
The prominence in his paintings of collarless free range dogs has been the subject of much speculation as to their symbolic or
metaphorical meaning.
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Paintings by Paul Gauguin
1892 paintings
Paintings in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay
Dogs in art
Musical instruments in art