Still Life with Exotic Birds

Still Life with Exotic Birds, an 1902 oil on canvas by Paul Gauguin, was painted in Atuona on Hiva-Oa in the Marquesas Islands and now hangs in Moscow’s Pushkin Museum. Gauguin signed it at bottom left and wrote “Oiseaux morts” on the back. The terracotta idol in the scene is his own creation; some scholars see it as the Polynesian moon goddess Hina, while Bengt Danielsson calls it a kind of Buddha.