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Arearea is an 1892 work by French painter Paul Gauguin. It was one of the works Gauguin exhibited at his 1893 Durand-Ruel exhibition in Paris. It was bequeathed to the French state in 1961, and was in the collection of the Louvre. From 1986, the painting has been in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay. The prominence in his paintings of collarless free range dogs has been the subject of much speculation as to their symbolic or metaphorical meaning.

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Artwork.image_file
Paul Gauguin - Arearea - Google Art Project.jpg
Artwork.image_size
300px
Artwork.title
Arearea
Artwork.artist
Paul Gauguin
Artwork.year
1892
Artwork.type
Oil paint on canvas
Artwork.museum
Musée d'Orsay
Artwork.city
Paris

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Paul Gauguin - Arearea - Google Art Project.jpg
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inception
1892-01-01
inventory number
RF 1961 6
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Arearea (Paul Gauguin - Musée d'Orsay)
catalog code
312
title
Arearea
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Arearea is an 1892 work by French painter Paul Gauguin. It was one of the works Gauguin exhibited at his 1893 Durand-Ruel exhibition in Paris. It was bequeathed to the French state in 1961, and was in the collection of the Louvre. From 1986, the painting has been in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay. The prominence in his paintings of collarless free range dogs has been the subject of much speculation as to their symbolic or metaphorical meaning.

== See also == List of paintings by Paul Gauguin

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