Noa Noa P. G. by Clorindo Manuel Jose Testa
Noa Noa P. G.
Clorindo Manuel Jose Testa
Title
Noa Noa P. G.
Artist
Clorindo Manuel Jose Testa
1923 - 2013 (biography)Year
1979
Technique
watercolor and ink
Image Size
20 x 15 11/16" image
Signature
pen, lower left
Edition Size
1 of 1 unique
Annotations
titled in ink, lower center margin
Reference
Paper
ivory wove
State
Publisher
Inventory ID
19829
Price
$2,500.00
Description
This watercolor and ink work on paper by Italian-Argentine artist/architect Clorindo Manuel Jose Testa was inspired by Paul Gauguin's travel journel "Noa Noa." Gauguin kept the journal during his first visit to Tahiti between 1891 and 1893.
The phrase, 'noa noa,' was used by Gauguin to describe the scent of the Tahitian women: "A mingled perfume, half animal, half vegetable emanated from them; the perfume of their blood and of the gardenias—tiaré—which they wore in their hair.
"Téiné merahi noa noa (now very fragrant)," they said.