Sacred Spring: Sweet Dreams (Nave nave moe)

1894 · Painting · 74 × 100 cm

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About the painting

Nave nave moe is an oil on canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, produced in Paris in 1894 but inspired by his trip to Tahiti three years earlier. It is now in the Hermitage Museum.

As early as 1895 it was displayed at an exhibition at the Hôtel Drouot, base of an auction house, under the title Eau delicieuse("Delicious water)". In 1907 it was acquired by the Moscow collector Ivan Morozov. After the Bolshevik nationalisation it was exhibited at the State Museum of Modern Western Art. It was transferred to the Hermitage Museum in 1931.

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Inventarisnummer: ГЭ-6510

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Intussen, in het leven van Paul Gauguin

Het hele leven

1891–1901 · Werkzaam in
Tahiti
1892
Teha'amana, His Tahitian Wife
As Gauguin recounted in his book Noa Noa, at this time he took the young Tahitian girl Teha'amana (Tehura in the book) as his vahine; by the end of summer 1892 she was expecting his child. Teha'amana became the model for a number of his works.
August 1893
Return to France
In August 1893 Gauguin returned to France, where he continued painting Tahitian subjects such as Mahana no atua and Nave nave moe; he rented an apartment on rue Vercingétorix on the edge of Montparnasse and held a weekly salon, cultivating an exotic image.
November 1894
Exhibition at Durand-Ruel
The exhibition at the Durand-Ruel gallery had moderate success: 11 of the 40 paintings shown were sold at fairly high prices; soon afterwards, however, Gauguin lost Durand-Ruel's patronage.
February – April 1895
Failed Auction and the Oviri Scandal
In February 1895 Gauguin tried to repeat the Hôtel Drouot auction, but without success; in April he submitted the large ceramic sculpture Oviri to the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, whose reception caused a scandal, and wrote an indignant letter on the state of modern ceramics in Le Soir.
28 June 1895
Final Departure for Oceania
On 28 June 1895 Gauguin sailed once more for Tahiti — Eugène Carrière arranged cheap passage for him — arriving in September; he never saw Europe again. He spent the next six years mostly near Papeete, building a spacious house at Punaauia.