Painted during his first stay in Tahiti between 1891 and 1893, Paul Gauguin's "Te raau rahi (The Big Tree)" depicts a monumental tree set within the island's landscape, its Tahitian title reflecting Gauguin's effort to describe his subjects in the language of the place rather than in French. The painting shows the bold simplification of form and rich, non-naturalistic color that Gauguin developed in Tahiti, using the island's vegetation as a vehicle for a more decorative, symbolic style of landscape painting than anything he had produced in France.
Printed edge to edge on a soft, durable woven area rug with a comfortable, non-slip feel.
