Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin 1888 Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 50.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA In early 1888, Van Gogh moved to Arles in the south of France, where he hoped to establish an…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Woman on a Striped Sofa with a Dog 1876 Oil on wood panel, 41.9 x 33.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA After studying in the United States and traveling throughout Europe, Cassatt settled in Paris in 1874.…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Poèmes Barbares (Savage Poems) 1896 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 48.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Gauguin’s model for this painting was likely Pau’ura a Tai, a 14-year-old girl whom the artist described as his “native wife”…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Autoportrait au nimbe (Self-Portrait with Halo) 1889 Oil on wood, 79.2 x 51.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A dark-haired, disembodied head of a haloed man with pale, peach skin floats against a red and yellow…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Le thé (The Tea) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 92.07 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cassatt’s paintings often document the social interactions of well-to-do women like herself. The activities they depict—tea drinking, going to the…