Pleasures of Brittany (Joies de Bretagne)

1889, published after 1900

Paul Gauguin

Associated Names
Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

Ambroise Vollard

Publisher, French, 1866 - 1939

The image shows two women from head to toe, viewed from the side, walking hand in hand. The woman on the left is slightly bent forward with her head turned towards the viewer. The woman on the right walks beside her, facing forward. Both women have elongated facial features and are wearing traditional head coverings that partially conceal their hair. They are dressed in dark dresses with white collars; the woman on the right has an apron with vertical stripes. In the background, there is a haystack or large mound on the left, and a small dog stands nearby in the far left corner. The background features a pastoral landscape with wavy hills, a distant church steeple, minimal visible vegetation, and a flat horizon.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph (zinc) on imitation Japan paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 32.5 × 47.2 cm (12 13/16 × 18 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1958.8.96

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mongan et al. 1988, no. 7, State only state (B)


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1964

  • The Turn of the Century, Kresge Art Center at Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1964, no. 26.

Bibliography

1927

  • Guérin, Marcel. L'Oeuvre gravé de Gauguin. 2 vols. Paris: H. Floury, 1927.

1988

  • Mongan, Elizabeth, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim. Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonne of his Prints. Berne: Galerie Kornfeld, 1988.

Inscriptions

recto: in stone, at lower left: Paul Gauguin / Joies de Bretagne

Wikidata ID

Q65364063

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