Talk:Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

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In popular culture[edit]

In a certain Calvin and Hobbes comic, done by Bill Watterson, has a reference to this painting. Should this be included?

I'd say yes. The usual format is under a header that reads something like "xxx in popular culture" or, given the rather long title of the article, perhaps "References in popular culture".

Atlant 13:58, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dream Theater also refers to the title of this painting while not necessarily referring to the painting itself. I'll write that in as advised, but I have no knowledge of the Calvin and Hobbes reference. D. F. Schmidt 20:29, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted the Dream Theater reference, as such rhetorical questions are almost archetypal and there is no evidence that Dream Theater's lyricist was inspired by this piece. Jedidiah 19:05, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Layout[edit]

Is there a way to make the table with the thumb flush left or flush right? I think that would look better than center justified. --Rajah 07:50, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Suicide[edit]

Did Gauguin actually commit suicide after the painting's completion? I don't think so, but since his vow to do so is mentioned in the article, surely its completion or not ought to be also. Lindsay H. 06:30, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ten years or so on a contributor replies ... Gauguin dies in what his biographer Belinda Thomson called "ignominious" circumstances. He was in wretched pain suffering from what is assumed today to have been the terminal stages of syphilis. An empty bottle of laudanum was found besides him so it has always been a question. However he had called out his physician Vernier the evening before, who had given him an injection of morphine. He was found by a faithful servant the following day, who ascertained he was dead in the Marquesan way by biting his head. Good for a DYK

... no need to cite me ... c1cada (talk) 23:50, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

1897-1898[edit]

I realize there is some confusion about the dates, and this needs to be discussed. The previous version stated it as a fact that the painting was completed in 1898, but this is only a theory based on an old photograph. Viriditas (talk) 01:20, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted sentence[edit]

I have deleted the following sentence from the article: "The curators of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where the painting now resides, are continuously updating their record of the painting's ownership history, suggesting that their list is not comprehensive." The sentence was based on a statement from the archive version of the MFA collections database entry for the painting, which I have replaced with the current version; it seems to be MFA boilerplate applied to various works on their website, and no longer appears on the page for this painting in any case. Gildir (talk) 19:29, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]