Paul Gauguin Painting Tahitian Women on the Beach in Elementary's The Woman

Summary: The Paul Gauguin painting Tahitian Women on the Beach ends up as Irene Adler's expert copy or extracted original in Elementary episode The Woman May 16, 2013.

Tahitian Women on the Beach (Femmes de Tahiti) by French post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848-May 8, 1903), Musée d'Orsay, seventh arrondissment (7e arrondissement de Paris): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Paul Gauguin painting Tahitian Women on the Beach appears among allegedly reproduced or restored artwork in a London apartment in the Columbia Broadcasting System's Elementary episode The Woman May 16, 2013.

The first season's 23rd episode, as the first part of the two-part season finale, brings Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) and Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) together. Sherlock cares not at all that Irene's apartment conceals the original Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind by Pieter Bruegel (1525?-Sep. 9, 1569) from 1568. Irene does not demur when Sherlock decides to designate which of the displayed artwork he deems diverted originals and which deserve the designation of diligent copy.

Director Seith Mann and writers Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny end the episode without elucidating which other artworks enjoy illegally extracted original status with the Bruegel.

The framed Paul Gauguin painting Tahitian Women on the Beach fits onto the wall behind the easel that flaunts Irene's most recent endeavors as art restorer.

Irene glimpses the duo from Noa Noa ("Scented Island," Tahiti) as she goes over the middle panel, The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, to the Rockox Triptych. The Bruegel parable hangs on the wall left of Gauguin's (June 7, 1848-May 8, 1903) painting and Peter Paul Rubens' (June 28, 1577-May 30, 1640) Triptych. The Gauguin is opposite, with the Rubens about half the distance between, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's (Nov. 24, 1864-Sep, 9, 1901) Rousse inclined against Irene's spiral staircase.

In the world of facts and fiction outside television series, the Paul Gauguin painting Tahitian Women on the Beach joins 19th-century French artworks in Paris, France.

The Orsay Museum (le Musée d'Orsay), not Irene, keeps the 27.16- by 36.02-inch (69- by 91.5-centimeter) oil on canvas by the ceramics-creating, sculpting, wood-carving Paris-born painter.

The beachscape from the first months after Eugène-Henri Paul Gauguin's landing in Papeete June 9, 1891, links white-capped black waters, yellow-orange sands and yellow-rimmed green lands. The Tahitian on the left maintains a somnolent, submissive posture in a red skirt whose white flowers match her tank top and flower behind her ear. A yellow ribbon nestles around her black, loose-drawn, shining, waist-length ponytail even though a pink ribbon nabs all of her fellow beach-sitter's dull-bodied, middle-parted, tight-drawn hair.

French colonialism obscures the pink-ribboned beachcomber in an ankle-length, high-necked, long-sleeved, loose-skirted pink dress from which her colonially oppressed lotus posture offers a bare right foot.

Professions as ship's boy, second-lieutenant, seaman, banker, stock exchange dealer, sailcloth salesman, bill-poster, Impressionist and synthetic Symbolist preceded Paul Gauguin painting Tahitian Women on the Beach.

Maternal art collections, maternal grandparents' residence in Lima, Peru, Colarossi Academy painting lessons and travels to Brazil, Brittany, Denmark, Martinique and Panama queued up as career-changing. He renounced wife Mette Gad (Sep. 7, 1850-Sep. 25, 1920) and their five children to romance Anna the Javanese and son Émile's mother, Pau'ura the Tahitian. He succumbed to heart disease before his three-month sentence and 1,000-franc fine for libel and tax evasion in Atuana, Marquesas, where Hueakihi's Catholic cemetery shelters his sepulture.

Perhaps Paul Gauguin painting Tahitian Women on the Beach tells Irene not to trivialize those unlike her, such as Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) and Tahitian traditionalists.

Art forger and restorer Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) charms Sherlock Holmes (Natalie Dormer) to distract him from her studio art collection that includes Paul Gauguin's Tahitian Women on the Beach, unspecified as diverted original or perfect copy: jedigirlsc @jedigirlsc, via Twitter April 17, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Tahitian Women on the Beach (Femmes de Tahiti) by French post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848-May 8, 1903) hangs in art forger and restorer Irene Adler's (Natalie Dormer) studio but is not identified as a stolen original or a perfect copy in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23); in real life the 1891 oil on canvas safely hangs in Musée d'Orsay, on the Seine's left bank (Rive Gauche), in Paris' aristocratic seventh arrondissment (7e arrondissement de Paris): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Gauguin_056.jpg

Art forger and restorer Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) charms Sherlock Holmes (Natalie Dormer) to distract him from her studio art collection that includes Paul Gauguin's Tahitian Women on the Beach, unspecified as diverted original or perfect copy: jedigirlsc @jedigirlsc, via Twitter April 17, 2013, @ https://twitter.com/jedigirlsc/status/324650994698956801

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