Tahitian Shore [recto]

c. 1900

Paul Gauguin

Associated Names
Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

The image shows a landscape with water leading towards a mountain range. The horizon is high, with loose, sketch-like brushstrokes creating a textured effect. The color palette is muted, dominated by sepia tones and blacks. The water is depicted with swirling lines, and mountains rise in the background. The sky is lightly sketched with clouds.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    traced monotype in warm black and brown on off-white wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33.2 x 51 cm (13 1/16 x 20 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1964.8.1795.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Field 1973, no. 72

Associated Artworks

This image depicts a landscape with rolling hills, treetops at the horizon, and a range of prominent hills in the background. The artwork uses loose brushstrokes to create an impressionistic scene with warm earthy tones of brown, green, and hints of blue. In the foreground, there are bush-like forms leading to a body of water with flowing lines. Larger land forms and hills extend into the background, framing the sky that has a faint wash of color and gentle cloud shapes.

Tahitian Shore [verso]

Paul Gauguin

1900

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1953

  • Monotypes by French and American Impressionists, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1953.

1955

  • Monotypes, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

1959

  • Gauguin, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1959, no. 190.

1960

  • Paul Gauguin, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1960, no. 130.

1966

  • Gauguin and the Decorative Style, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966.

1968

  • Degas Monotypes, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1968, not in catalogue.

1973

  • Paul Gauguin: Monotypes, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, no. 72, repro.

2014

  • Gauguin: Metamorphoses, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2014, no. 171.

Bibliography

1973

  • Field, Richard S. Paul Gauguin: Monotypes. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973: 99, no.72.

  • Field, Richard S. Paul Gauguin Monotypes. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973.

Wikidata ID

Q65511475

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