Paul Gauguin, Ta matete (The Market), 1892 — the canvas reproduced whole: five Tahitian women in profile on a green bench, figures crossing a pale square behind them

Paul Gauguin – Ta matete (The Market), 1892 | Giclée Print

50 × 40 cm / 19.7 × 15.7 in — Reduced, 0.46× original
CHF 59.00
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Paul Gauguin, Ta matete (The Market), 1892 — the canvas reproduced whole: five Tahitian women in profile on a green bench, figures crossing a pale square behind them
  • Paul Gauguin, Ta matete (The Market), 1892 — the canvas reproduced whole: five Tahitian women in profile on a green bench, figures crossing a pale square behind them
  • Gauguin, Ta matete — the 70 × 50 cm print hung above an oak sideboard
  • Detail at print size: the woman in the orange dress raising her hand, the weave of the jute showing through the paint
  • The 50 × 40 cm sheet as printed: Gauguin's market scene 42.00 × 33.36 cm on white paper, 4.0 cm margins at the sides
  • The 70 × 50 cm sheet as printed: Gauguin's market scene 51.26 × 40.71 cm on white paper, 9.4 cm margins at the sides
  • Scale diagram: the 70 × 50 cm sheet hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard, printed image area 51.26 × 40.71 cm
  • Paul Gauguin, Ta matete (The Market), 1892 — the canvas reproduced whole: five Tahitian women in profile on a green bench, figures crossing a pale square behind them
  • Gauguin, Ta matete — the 70 × 50 cm print hung above an oak sideboard
  • Detail at print size: the woman in the orange dress raising her hand, the weave of the jute showing through the paint
  • The 50 × 40 cm sheet as printed: Gauguin's market scene 42.00 × 33.36 cm on white paper, 4.0 cm margins at the sides
  • The 70 × 50 cm sheet as printed: Gauguin's market scene 51.26 × 40.71 cm on white paper, 9.4 cm margins at the sides
  • Scale diagram: the 70 × 50 cm sheet hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard, printed image area 51.26 × 40.71 cm
Paul Gauguin – Ta matete (The Market), 1892 | Giclée Print

Paul Gauguin – Ta matete (The Market), 1892 | Giclée Print

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Five women sit side by side on a green bench in strict profile, their hands raised in small, deliberate gestures, while figures cross a pale square behind them under blue tree trunks. Gauguin painted the canvas in 1892, during his first stay in Tahiti, and lettered its title, TA MATETE – the market – straight into the paint at the lower left.

The frieze-like order is borrowed: he kept a photograph of an Egyptian tomb painting from Thebes and moved its seated figures and raised hands into a Tahitian scene. He painted on coarse jute, and its weave shows through the colour everywhere; the print keeps it.

What this is. A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks from the museum's own photograph of the painting. It is not a painting and is not sold as one.

Scale
Original: 91.5 × 73.2 cm — oil on jute

  • 50 × 40 cm / 19.7 × 15.7 in — reduced, 0.46× original. Image 42.00 × 33.36 cm.
  • 70 × 50 cm / 27.6 × 19.7 in — reduced, 0.56× original. Image 51.26 × 40.71 cm.

Why this size. The canvas is 91.5 cm wide. The museum's photograph holds enough detail for 51.26 cm of image at 300 dpi, the floor we print to, so the large sheet reproduces it pixel for pixel at a little over half the width of the painting, and the small sheet at just under half. On the large sheet that leaves wider white margins at the sides than usual, 9.4 cm each. We do not enlarge files artificially: an upscaled file adds detail Gauguin never painted. A larger sheet would need a larger photograph, and when one exists we will print it.

The print
Giclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre, with a small Museartis wordmark in the lower left margin. The colour of the museum's file is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.

Provenance
Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903), Ta matete (The Market), 1892, oil on jute.

Where this comes from
The museum file, the measurements, and what we are allowed to sell: the record for this sheet.

Further reading
Why This Print Is Not Bigger

The record behind this sheet — which impression we chose and why, what we measured, what we are allowed to sell, and the framing dimensions for this sheet.

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