Paul Gauguin. Vaïraumati tei
oa (Her Name is Vairaumati). 1892. Oil on canvas. The Pushkin Museum
of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia. More.
Vairaumati, Gauguin misspelled it, is
a name of a mythic earth mother of Tahitian legend. With the god Oro as
father, she was the Tahitian Eve, who gave birth for the entire island
race.
