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Spirit of the Dead Watching

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Spirit of the Dead Watching (Manao tupapau) is an 1892 oil painting on burlap-textured canvas by Paul Gauguin, showing a nude young Tahitian woman lying face down on a bed while an old woman sits behind her. Gauguin said the title could describe either the girl imagining a watching spirit of the dead, or the spirit itself imagining her. The painting measures about 116 by 135 centimeters and is now held at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, New York. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Year Created
1892 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo 1
Height (metres)
1.1605 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
Connections

Created By

Paul Gauguin, Artists
Source Spirit of the Dead Watching (Wikipedia)

In Form

Painting, Art Forms
Source Spirit of the Dead Watching (Wikipedia)

In Genre

Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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Sources
1. Spirit of the Dead Watching (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, year
    1892
  • Infobox, medium
    Oil on canvas
  • Infobox, museum
    Buffalo AKG Art Museum
  • Infobox, height_metric
    116.05
  • Genre reference
    Spirit of the Dead Watching (Manao tupapau) is an 1892 oil painting on burlap-textured canvas by Paul Gauguin, showing a nude young Tahitian woman lying face down on a bed while an old woman sits behind her.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Spirit of the Dead Watching (Manao tupapau) is an 1892 oil on burlap canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, depicting a nude Tahitian girl lying on her stomach. An old woman is seated behind her. Gauguin said the title may refer to eith
  • Created By: Paul Gauguin, lead paragraph
    Spirit of the Dead Watching (Manao tupapau) is an 1892 oil on burlap canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, depicting a nude Tahitian girl lying on her stomach. An old woman is seated behind her. Gauguin said the title may refer to eith
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