Painted on a remote island in polynesia a year before the artist's death, the call belongs to a series of late works that explore the mysteries of life and death. Two women stand with bare feet, as if on sacred ground. One woman gestures to someone outside the picture, perhaps responding to a "call" from fate or destiny. Gauguin realized his ambition of painting from memory and the imagination through such mysterious, dreamlike images. Object Type: painting. Date: 1902. Place of creation: France, late 19th-early 20th Century. Dimensions: Framed: 160.5 x 119 x 9.5 cm (63 3/16 x 46 7/8 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 131.3 x 89.5 cm (51 11/16 x 35 1/4 in.). Medium: oil on fabric. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. Clevelandart 1943.392
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