Signed and dedicated ‘to Yvonne and Max-Anély, their old friend Géo de Monfreid, February 1909’. The canvas, painted in Monfreid's studio in Paris, depicts Segalen reading a History of French Painting, against a backdrop of works by Gauguin given to Monfreid:
La Barque, a painting given to Monfreid n 1897, and L'Idole à la perle, carved in Tahiti, now in the Musée d'Orsay.
Idol a la pearl Wood sculpture, gold and pearl by Paul Gauguin 1892-1893
La Barque, 1896. Gauguin, Paul Eugéne Henri (1848-1903)
Portrait de Yvonne Segalen
by George Daniel de Monfreid (1908)
Private Collection
Paul Gauguin, D'où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ?
1897-1898
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Boston).
Douanier Rousseau activating mystery and distance modalities
of an imagined exoticism
The Snake Charmer (1907)
Tiger in the storm
(1891) oil on canvass.