Hail Mary (Ia Orana Maria) (1891) by Paul Gauguin Postcard
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Gauguin devoted this painting, his first major Tahitian canvas, to a Christian theme, describing it in a letter of March 1892: "An angel with yellow wings reveals Mary and Jesus, both Tahitians". Very somber, mountainous background and flowering trees . . . a dark violet path and an emerald green foreground, with bananas on the left.