What was Paul Gauguins most famous piece of art?

Question: What was Paul Gauguins most famous piece of art!?
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The one I see most often in my Art History books is his: Mahana no atua (Day of the god)!.

Its this really colorful painting of people of a South Pacific culture!.

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His most popular painting is probably "Spirit of the Dead Watching"

It depicts a Tahitian female lying naked on her belly, terrified by the presence of the spirit of death!. Behind her, with an averted phosphorescent eye, the spirit is personified in the form of a harmless old woman dressed in a black shawl!. According to island mythology, the title has two meanings: either the young girl is thinking of the ghost, or the ghost is thinking of her!. Bold ambiguous shapes and colors (yellow blanket, blue pareu, phosporescent greenish sparks on a violet background) intensify the eerie atmosphere and enigmatic quality of the painting!.

Gauguin describes the incident that prompted the painting in his diary!. Returning home unexpectedly late one night he struck a match and saw his wife, Tehura, "immobile, naked, lying face downward on the bed with the eyes inordinately large with fear !. !. !. Might she not with her frightened face take me for one of the demons and spectres of the Tupapaus, with which the legends of her race people sleepless nights!?" (Noa Noa, Louvre manuscript, pp!. 109-110)!. Native Polynesians believe(d) that the phosphorescences of the light are the spirits of the dead!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Where_Do_We!.!.!.
go to this website!. It has all the info you need!. I think Gauguin had a few famous works, but instantly, when thinking of him, i think of this work first!. It is reality basically, of life and death!. thats why so many people could relate to this work, as the name states, "Where do we come from!? What are we!? Where are we going!?"Www@QuestionHome@Com