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Caricature of Paul Gauguin
Émile Bernard1889
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Émile Bernard worked closely with Paul Gauguin in the village of Pont-Aven during the late 1880s, adopting a new style that emphasized imagination rather than observed reality. This caricatural portrait dates to their most intense period of collaboration, and shows Gauguin as the leader of a new school of painting, seated regally and holding a walking stick that resembles a scepter.
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- Title: Caricature of Paul Gauguin
- Creator: Émile Bernard (French, 1868-1941)
- Date Created: 1889
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 19.9 x 15.5 cm (7 13/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
- Provenance: (Christie's, London, July 5, 1974, no. 285), (Sotheby's, London, April 8, 1976, no. 279, sold to Dr. Anton C.R. Dreesmann, Amsterdam), Dr. Anton C.R. Dreesmann [1923-2000], Amsterdam, (Christie's, London, Dreesmann sale, April 9, 2002, no. 38, sold to William Kelly SImpson, Katonah, NY), William Kelly Simpson [1928-2017], Katonah, NY, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.75
- Medium: watercolor and black ink on paper
- Inscriptions: upper edge, above image, in pen and brown ink: Caricature de P. Gauguin / in pale brown ink: (Coastal Indian), in pen and brown ink: 1889 / E. Bernard, lower right: E. Bernard 89, verso: long inscription in pen and brown ink
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of William Kelly Simpson in memory of his wife Marilyn M. Simpson and her grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 2018.75
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