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) is an 1897–98 painting by French artist Paul Gauguin. The painting was created in Tahiti and is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Viewed as a masterpiece by Gauguin, the painting is considered "a philosophical work comparable to the themes of the Gospels". [1] The painting is notable for its enigmatic subject and atmosphere.
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) was a leading 19th-century Post-Impressionist artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist and writer.His bold experimentation with color directly influenced modern art in the 20th century while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the ...
Gauguin outlived three of his children; his favorite daughter Aline died of pneumonia, his son Clovis died of a blood infection following a hip operation, [230] and a daughter, whose birth was portrayed in Gauguin's painting of 1896 Te tamari no atua, the child of Gauguin's young Tahitian mistress, Pau'ura, died only a few days after her birth ...
Portrait of Madeleine Bernard is an August 1888 oil on canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, now in the Museum of Grenoble, which bought it for 20,000 francs in 1923. [1] [2] [3] It shows Madeleine Bernard, sister of the French painter Émile Bernard (1868-1941) (they both visited Gauguin around that time) and is painted on the other side of the June 1888 The White River by the same artist.
Looking for a society more elemental and simple than that in France, Gauguin auctioned thirty of his paintings and used the money to travel to Tahiti. This first visit lasted from 1891 to 1893. His book Noa Noa [ ca ] was written in the style of a travel journal and was originally meant to provide a context for his 1893 Paris exhibition.
Paintings by Paul Gauguin. Pages in category "Paintings by Paul Gauguin" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total. ...
A preparatory drawing for this figure in ink, pencil and gouache survives in the Art Institute of Chicago. [ 5 ] The artist sent the work to Paul Durand-Ruel in 1893 and it was exhibited at the Hotel Drouot sale of Gauguin's drawings and paintings in Paris on 18 February 1895, intended to finance another trip to Tahiti, at which A. Seguin ...
Though Gauguin would have viewed Van Gogh painting many times, it is likely that this portrait scene was done mostly from memory. A key indicator of this is that the work was completed in the winter of 1888, but depicts a scene from the summer, suggesting that Gauguin developed the concept of the painting first, and then later added details ...