Race to the market, Tahiti
1880 Art Gallery of New South Wales
About this artwork
This oil painting depicts four figures navigating traditional outrigger canoes in a tropical coastal landscape. It is currently held in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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Nicholas Chevalier was a versatile Russian-born artist who traveled extensively and was one of the first professional artists to visit the South Pacific. This work reflects the 19th-century European fascination with Polynesian life, blending ethnographic interest with the dramatic, polished style typical of the Academic tradition of the time.
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Race to the market, Tahiti
Nicholas Chevalier, 1880
