Te burao (The Hibiscus Tree)
Paul Gauguin · 1892
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 68 × 90.7 cm (26 3/4 × 35 11/16 in.); Framed: 86.4 × 109.3 × 8.9 cm (34 × 43 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Currently held
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
Te burao (The Hibiscus Tree) is one of Gauguin's most luminous works from his first stay in Tahiti, filled with the dense, saturated greens and golds that define his Polynesian period. Gauguin arrived in Tahiti in 1891 seeking what he called a primitive paradise, free from the conventions of European art. In Te burao, painted in 1892, he worked in his characteristic flat, bold manner — forms simplified to near-decorative shapes, colour chosen for emotional weight rather than naturalism. The hibiscus tree anchors a composition that feels simultaneously lush and still, the Tahitian light rendered in a way no photograph of the era could capture. The painting now hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago, one of several Tahitian works acquired by American institutions in the early twentieth century as Gauguin's reputation grew posthumously following his death in 1903. This hand-painted oil reproduction is made on canvas using the same medium as the original, allowing the depth and warmth of Gauguin's palette — those layered ochres, deep shadows, and tropical greens — to come through in a way that a print simply cannot replicate.
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