Abstract
Woman with a Fan (1902) is the culmination of Gauguin's representations of the Tahitian goddess of regeneration. His depiction of Vairaumati frames his intertwined aesthetic and spiritual beliefs. Her fan signals her immortal status and, through its blue, white, and red ornament, Gauguin's revolutionary call to “the right to dare all.” This justifies his assimilation of multiple sources, which, through a process he called transposition, took on new life. Thus, the regeneration epitomized by Vairaumati is implemented in the pictorial dynamic through the mutation of the sources that constitute her identity, tying the permutations of art to the soul's immortality.
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