Nevermore

Nevermore is an 1897 oil on canvas painting by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin. Since 1932 it has been in the collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art and on display in the Gallery. It was executed during the artist's second stay on the island of Tahiti in the South Pacific.

The enigmatic work depicts a naked Pahura, Gauguin's teenage vahine or wife, lying on a bed in their hut, her figure echoed by the curves of the headboard. In the background behind the bed can be seen a raven and two mysterious human figures.

The title "Nevermore", painted in relatively large capitals in the top left-hand corner, and the presence of the raven is an obvious reference to Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 poem "The Raven", which was well known to Gauguin and recited at his farewell party in 1891. In the poem, a mourning student is visited in his room by a raven who croaks the one word "nevermor…

摘自英文维基百科「Nevermore (Gauguin)」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。