Tag: Gauguin

Haere Pape (1892)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Haere Pape 1892 Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 67.3 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Fed up with industrialized Europe, Paul Gauguin went to Tahiti in 1891 seeking a simpler, more “primitive” way of life, one uncorrupted by modern technology…

M. Loulou (1890)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) M. Loulou (Mr. Louis Le Ray) 1890 Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 46.4 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Beginning in 1886 Gauguin frequently painted in Le Pouldo, a small town in the Brittany region of France, attracted by what…

Arlésiennes, Mistral (1888)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Arlésiennes (Mistral) 1888 Oil on jute canvas, 73 × 92 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago One of seventeen canvases that Paul Gauguin completed during a brief and tumultuous visit with Vincent van Gogh in Arles, this powerful…

Rue à Rouen (1884)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Rue à Rouen (Street in Rouen) 1884 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Street in Rouen is one of the most ambitious — and largest —landscapes painted by Gauguin while living in this town…

La rue Jouvenet à Rouen (1884)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) La rue Jouvenet à Rouen (Rue Jouvenet in Rouen) 1884 Oil on canvas, 55 x 48.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection This quiet street, similar to that of a village, represents the rue Jouvenet in Rouen,…

Au poulailler (c.1878)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Au poulailler (In the Henhouse) c.1878 Oil on cardboard, 22 x 35.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection Through Pissarro, Gauguin was invited to participate in the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition, exhibiting a marble bust, although this work…

Paysage de Bretagne (1888)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Paysage de Bretagne (Landscape of Brittany) 1888 Oil on canvas, 89.3 x 116.6 cm National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo See also: • Bretagne (France)

National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo)

Established: 1959 Location: 7-7 Ueno Imperial Grant Park, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan Website: https://www.nmwa.go.jp/en/ Collection: • Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898): La plage de Trouville (1867) • Bouguereau, William (1825-1905): Petite fille (1878) • Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879): Marie Madeleine (c.1849-50) • Fantin-Latour, Henri…