Arearea

{{Short description|Painting by Paul Gauguin}}

{{Infobox artwork

| image_file=Paul Gauguin - Arearea - Google Art Project.jpg

| image_size=300px

| title=Arearea

| artist=Paul Gauguin

| year=1892

| type=Oil paint on canvas

| dimensions={{convert|75|x|93|cm|in}}

| museum=Musée d'Orsay

| city=Paris

}}

Arearea is an 1892 work by French painter Paul Gauguin.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-10-19/van-gogh-s-face-gauguin-s-girls-cezanne-s-onions-shine-in-s-f-review|title=Van Gogh's Head, Gauguin Girls, Cezanne's Onions Shine in S.F.|last=West|first=Stephen|date=19 October 2010|work=Bloomberg News|publisher=Bloomberg L.P.|accessdate=7 February 2015}}{{subscription required}} It was one of the works Gauguin exhibited at his 1893 Durand-Ruel exhibition in Paris.{{cite web | url=http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/arearea-291 | title=Paul Gauguin - Arearea | publisher=Musée d'Orsay | accessdate=22 May 2024}} It was bequeathed to the French state in 1961, and was in the collection of the Louvre.{{Base Joconde|000PE003845|Arearea (joyeusetés)}} From 1986, the painting has been in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay. The prominence in his paintings of collarless free range dogs has been the subject of much speculation as to their symbolic or metaphorical meaning.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wf_PoXKhggkC&pg=PA154 |page=154 |title=The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin |date=August 1998 |first1=Naomi E. |last1=Maurer |first2=Vincent |last2=Van Gogh |type=Hardcover |publisher=Fairleigh |location=Dickinson, New Jersey |isbn=0838637493 |accessdate=April 5, 2017}}