{"product_id":"paul-gauguin-ta-matete-the-market-1892-porcelain-art-mug","title":"Paul Gauguin: Ta matete (The Market), 1892 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Gauguin (1848–1903)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTa matete (The Market)\u003c\/em\u003e, 1892\u003cbr\u003eOil on jute, 73.2 x 91.5 cm\u003cbr\u003eKunstmuseum Basel, gift of Dr. h.c. Robert von Hirsch, inv. 1849\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain; image data released by the Kunstmuseum Basel as public domain\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive women sit side by side on a green bench, turned in strict profile, their hands raised in small, deliberate gestures. Nobody looks at anybody. Behind them, under blue tree trunks, figures cross a pale square, and a sixth woman in a red-and-yellow pareu closes the row at the right like a curtain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stiff, frieze-like order is borrowed. Gauguin kept a photograph of an Egyptian wall painting from a tomb at Thebes, made some 3,300 years earlier, and lifted its seated figures and their raised hands into a Tahitian scene. The title is the Tahitian form of the English word \"market\"; it probably points to the market in Papeete, a place with an ambiguous reputation in colonial Tahiti. Gauguin painted the picture in 1892, during his first stay on the island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts later path is a small history of modern collecting. The Paris dealer Ambroise Vollard set it aside for Karl Ernst Osthaus, founder of the Folkwang Museum; in 1917 and 1918 it changed hands at auction and among dealers in Berlin and Munich. In 1941 the collector Robert von Hirsch, who had left Frankfurt for Basel, gave it to the city as thanks for his Swiss citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLook at the lower left corner of the mug: Gauguin lettered the title, TA MATETE, straight into the paint; his signature and the date \"92\" sit at the lower right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Gauguin, \u003cem\u003eTa matete (The Market)\u003c\/em\u003e, 1892; oil on jute, 73.2 × 91.5 cm. Kunstmuseum Basel, gift of Dr. h.c. Robert von Hirsch, 1849. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":58685799596363,"sku":"5776e7bb-9b6d-4ef8-8558-8e452ce99b28","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/d7de12b9-d67d-4cf1-93af-17cd521725c8.jpg?v=1791006329","url":"https:\/\/tazzarte.com\/products\/paul-gauguin-ta-matete-the-market-1892-porcelain-art-mug","provider":"Tazzarte","version":"1.0","type":"link"}