Past Exhibition

Gauguin Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection

This is an image of two separate sketches side by side. On the left, there is a sketch of a monkey's head and a rough outline of a house with a chimney. On the right, there is a more detailed drawing of a figure possibly sitting, with their head slightly ducked and hands positioned in front, depicted with a colored hat and clothes. The drawing on the right is rendered in a sketchy, loose style with some colored accents.
Paul Gauguin, Monkey and Cottage; Little Breton Boy [recto], 1886, graphite and crayon on wove paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.32.a

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    West Building, Ground Floor, Hammer Galleries
This is an image of two separate sketches side by side. On the left, there is a sketch of a monkey's head and a rough outline of a house with a chimney. On the right, there is a more detailed drawing of a figure possibly sitting, with their head slightly ducked and hands positioned in front, depicted with a colored hat and clothes. The drawing on the right is rendered in a sketchy, loose style with some colored accents.
Paul Gauguin, Monkey and Cottage; Little Breton Boy [recto], 1886, graphite and crayon on wove paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.32.a

Overview: 36 drawings were selected from Paul Gauguin's Breton Sketchbook No. 16, which he used during visits to Copenhagen and Brittany between 1884 and 1888. These works were shown as part of a continuous series of changing exhibitions highlighting drawings from the Armand Hammer collection.

Organization: Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator of old master drawings at the National Gallery, coordinated the exhibition.

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