Still Life with Parrots

Still Life with Exotic Birds also known as Still Life with Parrots is an oil on canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, produced in Atuona on Hiva-Oa in the Marquesas Islands, in 1902. It is held in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow. It is signed "Paul Gauguin 1902" at bottom left, with the inscription "Oiseaux morts" (dead birds) on the back of the stretcher.

Marina Alexandrovna Bessonova argues that the tablecloth covers a travelling trunk rather than a table, but the table leg is clearly visible on the right. The terracotta idol shown was made by Gauguin himself - some art historians believe it is the Polynesian moon goddess Hina (often found in other Gauguin works produced on Tahiti), but Bengt Danielsson claims it is "a kind of Buddha" rather than Tahitian or Polynesian.

Just after producing the work Gauguin sent it to his friend George-Daniel de Monfreid in France, who sold it to Gustave Fayet …

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