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Mahana no atua (Day of the God)

Brightly colored painting of a medium-skinned nude woman sitting on pink sand with her feet in a multicolored body of water, flanked by two nude figures resting in the fetal position. Behind them is a deity sculpture and individuals carrying objects, dancing, and swimming.

Mahana no atua (Day of the God)

Paul Gauguin · 1894

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Palette

Slate
59% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.8:1

Dusty rose
14% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.5:1

Taupe
10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1

Dark ochre
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

Cinnamon
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1

Moss
4% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.8:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Date: 1894
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on linen canvas
Size: 68 × 91 cm (26 7/8 × 36 in.); Framed: 87.7 × 110.5 × 6.4 cm (34 1/2 × 43 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Seascapes and the coast · Music and dance · Bible stories and saints
Main colour: Grey · lightness 40, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules