The Large Tree ☲ Gauguin ☴ Canvas moon that my pond had become

that my pond had become enchanted

with the sun setting behind him

An interpretation offered by Rousseau is that it depicts a woman reclining on a couch in Paris

After the tragic death of Modigliani and his wife

journaling

The Large Tree ☲ Gauguin ☴ Canvas moon that my pond had becomeThe Large Tree (1891, Le Grand Arbre) by Paul Gauguin depicts a tropical scene of four women in the shade of a large tree while a fifth woman rests in the doorway of a thatched roof hut in the background. The words "Te raau rahi" (Tahitian for "The Big Tree") appear in the lower left under the tree. The painting was one of his first created in Tahiti, where he had gone to escape the materialism of European society, abandoning his family and career as