Paul Gauguin

The Vision after the Sermon

US$ 630.00

Breton women in white headdresses bow their heads in the foreground while Jacob wrestles the angel on a flat vermilion field behind them, a tree trunk slicing diagonally between the two worlds. Gauguin makes no attempt to render the vision as real space — the red ground announces it as something collectively imagined. The local priest refused the painting when Gauguin offered it to his church.

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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) abandoned a career as a stockbroker to paint, worked in Brittany and Martinique before settling in Polynesia, and pushed toward flat areas of unnaturalistic colour and heavy outline in deliberate rejection of Impressionist optics. His writings and his art were enormously influential on Symbolism and on twentieth-century colour. His conduct in the Pacific has been the subject of significant reassessment.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 46 × 36 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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