Artwork Details
36 x 28-1/2 in. (canvas) 3 x 35-3/4 x 3 in. (framed, Optium)
Accession NumberGift in memory of William Ray Adams
CopyrightEuropean Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette(Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris, France) by 1907; Gabriel Frizeau, Bordeaux; (Ambroise Vollard, Paris) again by 1910;{1} to (Justin K. Thannhauser [1892-1976], Munich, Germany) in 1912;{2} sold to Baron August von der Heydt [1851-1929], Elberfeld, Rheinland, Germany by 1918;{3} sold to a Mr. Neumann, Barmen,Germany after World War I, probably Karl Neumann;{4} Possibly sold back to (Justin K. Thannhauser).{5} Probably (A. Tooth & Sons, London, England).{6} In the collection of Captain Ernest Duveen, London, by 1927.{7} (Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London).{8} Via (Hugo Perls [1886-1977], New York, New York) to (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, New York) by 1942;{9} purchased from (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc.) by Mrs. Julian Bobbs in February 1944 for the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, as a Gift in memory of William Ray Adams.{10} {1} For the detailed early provenance of this painting see Daniel Wildenstein, Gauguin: A Savage in the Making: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (1873-1888), Paris, Milan, 2002, catalogue no. 315 (illustrated). {2} Wildenstein catalogue raisonné, 2002, cited above notes that Vollard sold it to Thannhauser in Munich, see Vollard 1912 diary in Vollard Archives, Documentation de la Conservation, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. {3} See C. G. Heise, Die Sammlung des Freiherrn August von der Heydt, Elberfeld, 1918, no. 93 (illustration). Also, in correspondence between Eduard von der Heydt [1882-1964], son of Baron August von der Heydt, and the John Herron Art Institute, dated 14 September 1946, the former recalls that his father purchased the painting from Justin K. Thannhauser. See correspondence in IMA Historical File (44.10). {4} Ibid. Eduard von der Heydt notes in the same letter that the Gauguin was sold to a "Mr. Neumann in Barmen." {5} Ibid. Von der Heydt's son believes that the painting went back to Thannhauser after Neumann owned it briefly. {6} As cited in Wildenstein catalogue raisonné, 2002. {7} See J. B. Manson, "Two Modern French Pictures," Apollo, London , Volume 5, No. 25, January 1927, page 32 identifies the painting as belonging to Captain Ernest Duveen. {8} See the exhibition catalogue for Exhibition of Master of French 19th -century Painting, New Burlington Galleries, London, catalogue no. 97 for Agnew & Sons as owner. {9} A typed list in the Hugo Perls Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, New York - microfilm 712, reel 1, frame 165 - lists a Gauguin landscape that is likely to be the IMA's Landscape near Arles. For Knoedler, see the printed exhibition checklist for Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, "French Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries, November 1942, checklist no. 28, copy in IMA Provenance file (44.10) {10} Mrs. Julian Bobbs (Helen Adams Bobbs) was married to William Ray Adams in her first marriage.
This canvas was the first one Gauguin painted during the two months he spent in Provence with Vincent van Gogh in 1888, just after his productive summer in Pont-Aven. Gauguin had rebelled against Impressionism's reliance on the visible world, and he altered nature's shapes and colors to suggest his own more subjective reaction to the landscape.
In this composition, however, Gauguin focuses on forms and structure. While the rural subject and acidic colors show the influence of van Gogh, this image is more indebted to Paul Cézanne. In his careful integration of the haystack and farm buildings, Gauguin has echoed Cézanne's emphasis on geometric form.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Van Gogh and Gauguin: Studio of the South
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
March 26, 2004 - March 26, 2004
Van Gogh and Gauguin: Studio of the South
The Van Gogh Museum
February 9, 2002 - June 2, 2002
Van Gogh and Gauguin: Studio of the South
Art Institute of Chicago
September 22, 2001 - January 13, 2002
The Art of Paul Gauguin
Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais Champs-Elysées
January 10, 1989 - April 20, 1989
The Art of Paul Gauguin
Art Institute of Chicago
September 7, 1988 - December 10, 1988
The Art of Paul Gauguin
National Gallery of Art
May 1, 1988 - July 31, 1988
A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape
Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais Champs-Elysées
February 8, 1985 - April 22, 1985
A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape
Art Institute of Chicago
October 23, 1984 - January 6, 1985
A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
June 28, 1984 - September 16, 1984
Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism
Art Gallery of Ontario
January 24, 1981 - March 22, 1981
The Early Work of Paul Gauguin, Genesis of an Artist
Cincinnati Art Museum
March 18, 1971 - April 26, 1971
Design and Content
Columbus Museum of Art
April 7, 1967 - April 30, 1967
Gauguin and the Decorative Style
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
June 23, 1966 - October 23, 1966
Olympia’s Progeny, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings
Wildenstein and Co., Inc.
October 28, 1965 - November 27, 1965
Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat-Wegereiter der modernen Malerie
Kunstverein Hamburg
May 4, 1963 - July 14, 1963
Paul Gauguin
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
June 7, 1960 - July 31, 1960
Paul Gauguin
Haus der Kunst
April 1, 1960 - May 29, 1960
Gauguin
Metropolitan Museum of Art
April 2, 1959 - May 31, 1959
Gauguin
Art Institute of Chicago
February 12, 1959 - March 29, 1959
Gauguin
Wildenstein & Company, Inc.
April 4, 1956 - May 5, 1956
Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings and Sculptures of Gauguin
Tate Britain
September 30, 1955 - October 26, 1955
Paul Gauguin: His Place in the Meeting of East and West
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
March 27, 1954 - April 25, 1954
French Art
Indiana University
October 25, 1948 - October 31, 1948
Masters of French 19th Century Painting
New Burlington Galleries
1936 - 1936
Cent Oeuvres de Gauguin
Galerie Charpentier
Dates Unknown
French Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Rhode Island School of Design
Dates Unknown
Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings and Sculptures of Gauguin
The Royal Scottish Academy
Dates Unknown
The Springtime of Impressionism
Columbus Museum of Art
Dates Unknown
Bâtiments des Expositions Libres
1893 - 1893
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