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Description
Te Rerioa was created during Gauguin's second visit to Tahiti. In this painting, two women watch over a sleeping child in a room adorned with intricate wooden reliefs. It's important to note that the figures in the painting do not interact with each other, adding to the overall mystery of the work. Paul Gauguin intentionally intended to leave the subject matter ambiguous. See more
In his own words, he wrote, "Everything is a dream in this canvas: is it the child? is it the mother? is it the horseman on the path? or even is it the dream of the painter!!!"
In the lower part of the composition, Gauguin inscribed the Tahitian word for "dream," but he misspelled it as "rereioa" instead of the correct "rereioa." During his second visit to Tahiti in 1895, Gauguin made a stopover in New Zealand. While waiting for his ship to be repaired, he spent time at the Auckland Museum, which housed a collection of Maori art. Among the objects he discovered was an intricately carved decorative bowl with two figures forming the handles.
Two years later, Gauguin incorporated a painted version of this wooden bowl into The Dream. However, he transformed it into a cradle for the peacefully sleeping infant.