Paul Gauguin's painting "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" was created in Tahiti in 1897-1898. It is Gauguin's largest and most ambitious work, painted on rough sackcloth, and is considered his masterpiece. The painting is currently housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. The work is a philosophical meditation on life, death, and existence, divided into three main sections representing different stages of life. Gauguin painted it during a difficult time in his life, intending it as a grand culmination of his ideas before a planned suicide attempt. The setting reflects the landscape of Tahiti, with symbolic figures from Gauguin's personal mythology and the island environment.
