The Loss of Virginity ☳ Gauguin ☲ Canvas Size:36 x 24 The first version from 1893

The first version from 1893 features the barely visible pencil inscription "Kan kun være malet af en gal Mand

with the sun setting behind him

or perhaps as the large uprooted tree standing as a third figure in the moonlight

The dense foreground gives way to a panoramic horizon

Almond Blossom (1890) by Vincent van Gogh was made to celebrate the birth of his nephew and namesake

The Loss of Virginity ☳ Gauguin ☲ Canvas Size:36 x 24 The first version from 1893The Loss of Virginity (The Awakening of Spring) (1891, La Perte de Virginit, le Rveil du Printemps) by Paul Gauguin symbolically depicts a young woman's loss of virginity. The woman is laying naked in a Breton field overlooking the ocean, plucked flower in her hand, embracing a fox, while a wedding party approaches from the distance. Gauguin's last major work produced before he went to Tahiti, the model was his 20 year old mistress, Juliette Huet, who