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Paul Gauguin Skateboard Triptych - Musart on Decks - When Will You Marry? (1892)

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We are delighted to present Musart on Decks, our exclusive original collection that showcases limited edition skateboard decks featuring timeless masterpieces from art history. This collection serves as a bridge between the rich traditions of art and the vibrant skateboarding culture, all offered at accessible prices.

As part of Musart on Decks, we are thrilled to introduce the exclusive limited edition of 100 Paul Gauguin Skateboard Deck Triptychs, featuring his renowned work "When Will You Marry? Nafea Faa Ipoipo" from 1892. This painting gained significant attention when it was sold at Sotheby's auction house in 2015 for approximately $300 million USD, making it one of the most expensive paintings ever sold. 

Created during Gauguin's time in Tahiti, this artwork portrays two native Tahitian women as the central figures. They are depicted within an earthly paradise, untouched by European civilization. The young woman in traditional Tahitian attire wears a flower, symbolizing her availability for marriage. The vibrant colors of her clothing starkly contrast with the motherly figure behind her, dressed in traditional Western garments, hinting at the influence of French colonization on the lives of the Tahitian natives.

Gauguin's use of naive outlines and vibrant colors in this artwork exemplifies his ideas of Synthetism and primitive art, where color, subject, and other elements serve as a means to express the invisible, the idea that takes precedence above all else. Despite his disappointment in the impact of French colonization on his idealized vision of a non-industrialized society, Gauguin allowed himself to reimagine the idyllic, native Tahitian paradise in his dreams.

Technical Specifications

  • Musart on Decks, When Will You Marry? Nafea Faa Ipoipo (1939), Triptych Limited edition of 100, Skateboard Deck Sets
  • Material: 100% Canadian/American Maple wood.
  • Measurements Mellow Concave Skateboard set of 3: (Angles) Approx. 19.25º nose and 18.5º tail with a medium center concave. (Dimensions) 32″H x 8″L x 0.5″W Inches (est.)
  • Weight: 8.14 lbs (est)
  • Additional Features: Includes Skateboard Deck Display wall mounts.
  • Photo Credits: © Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903). Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) – Two Young Tahitian women crouching on the ground. 1892. Oil on Canvas, 105 x 77.5 cm. Formerly Fondation Rudolf Staechelin, on loan to the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland. Sold at Sotheby’s for nearly $300 Million USD. Private Collection. Photo Credit: Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY.
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Paul Gauguin was unquestionably the most influential artist associated with the 19th century Symbolist movement. Although Gauguin avoided the heavy literary content and traditional style like other Symbolist artists, he also rejected the optical naturalism of the Impressionists, while at the same time preserving their use of color in works of art. Gauguin's ideas on Synthetism emerged from the thought of using color arbitrarily rather than to merely describe the object. Through his ideas of finding a synthesis between the subject and color, Gauguin sought to find the ideal way of depicting, that which is invisible, subjective as well as deep meanings and emotion. Gauguin spent the early years of his childhood in Peru, and he appears almost always to have has nostalgia for seemingly exotic places. From 1886 to 1887, he spent time between Paris, the Breton villages of Pont-Aven and Le Poildu. During this time, he also spent seven months in Panama and Martinique. In 1888, he had a tempestuous but productive visit with Van Gogh in Arles. In 1891, Gauguin sailed to Tahiti where he was very disappointed to discover how extensively Western missionaries and colonials had invaded upon the life of the Tahitian natives. The capital, Papeete, was filled with French government officials, and Tahitian women often covered themselves with ankle-length missionary dresses. Gauguin returned to France for two years in 1893 before settling in the South Seas for good. His final trip, in the wake of years of illness and suffering, was to the island of Hiva-Oa in the Marquesas Island, where he died in 1903 to a morphine overdose.

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