Parau Hina Tefatou (Words between Goddess of the Moon and God of the Earth)
A pen and ink drawing with gray wash shows two figures in profile leaning close, one with a bare torso and a long dark hair, the other with a bare-chested figure beside a dark arc. Inscribed title lettering sits at upper left, and the drawing is set in a ruled rectangular frame on textured ivory paper.
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin
- Date
- 1893/94
- Medium
- Brush and gray wash and pen and brown ink (originally purple, est.), with black fabricated chalk, on heavily textured ivory wove paper
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 843 × 1146 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1894).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Edward McCormick Blair