Here we make love

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NOTE: All Giclee prints on PAPER are printed and cut to exact size. If you would like extra paper around your print please let us know. We can add an extra 1/4" or 1/2" of paper on all sides upon request. This selection does not apply for the stretched canvas or framed products.

SKU: TRG-PRINT-METM-337895 Category: Giclee Prints Tag: Paul Gauguin Artist: Gauguin, Paul

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A couple appears beside the shore in the pale, lightly printed surface of Paul Gauguin’s Here We Make Love. The figures and their setting remain closely connected, inviting the eye to find their relationship through subdued marks rather than emphatic darkness. The intimate title gives the scene another layer, making a quiet grouping suggest more than a simple account of place.

Created in 1893–94, the work was printed in color, allowing carved marks and changing tones to establish the scene together. Gauguin gives the woodcut a surface that can remain visibly worked while carrying human associations beyond the marks themselves. The print invites patient looking at how a private subject acquires a public visual form. Its appeal comes from that tension, where an intimate title and an emphatic medium can suggest more than either would convey alone.