Who painted “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”?

“Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” was painted by Paul Gauguin in 1897. Where to see it: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Post-Impressionism

What to look for

Paul Gauguin: flat areas of strong, unnatural colour inside dark outlines; Breton peasants and Tahitian women, still and monumental, in a dreamlike setting.

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. Wikipedia

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More by Paul Gauguin

“When Will You Marry?”, 1892
“Tahitian Women on the Beach”, 1890
“Manaò tupapaú”, 1892
“The Yellow Christ”, 1889
“Aha Oe Feii?”, 1892
“Ia Orana Maria”, 1891
“Vision After the Sermon”, 1888
“Nevermore”, 1897