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Sky Study with a Tree
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Department of Drawings
The artist's estate by descent; to Caroline (Charlotte Louise Elisabeth) Rivière by descent; to her heirs 1864. Private collection France sold; to Joseph Baillio New York sold [through Sotheby's New York January 31 2024]; to [Härb Nuti London] sold; to Harvard Art Museums 2025
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Purchase through an anonymous donor in honor of Katharine Baetjer
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Village in Martinique (Femmes et Chevre dans le village)
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In 1887, Gauguin and Charles Laval went to Panama, and then to Martinique, searching for a warm, healthy climate and a cheap place to live a natural, "savage" life. Residing during...
painting (watercolour): ["The Tree Feller"]
painting (watercolour): ["The Tree Feller"]
The tree feller of the title is standing in the centre right foreground, raising as axe above a fallen tree. A large tree at the left foreground, casts a long shadow to the right. ...
Untitled (Banyan Trees, Palm Tree, and Altar)
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In this monochromatic ink drawing, the trunk of a palm tree shoots upward through the mass of branches produced by a neighboring banyan tree. The scene recalls a well-known Bengali...
Morning, Noon and Night
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Three square linocuts printed side by side on white paper: left, yellow sunrise with tree to right and swirling lines; centre, ochre, three trees with path and the sun high in sky;...
Morning, Noon and Night
Morning, Noon and Night
Three square linocuts printed one above the other in black on white paper: at top, sunrise with tree to right and swirling lines; in the centre, three trees with path and the sun h...
Morning, Noon and Night
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Three square linocuts printed one above the other in black on white paper: at top, sunrise with tree to right and swirling lines; in the centre, three trees with path and the sun h...
painting (gouache): ["The Blasted Tree"]
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The blasted tree stands to the left foreground. Beneath it, two figures are seated and a woman tends a cooking pot which is hanging over a fire. A path leads diagonally from the gr...
Nolan Amphora (storage jar): Theseus and Sinis Grasping Fir Tree
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On one side: Theseus and Sinis. Sinis was a bandit who lived at the Isthmus of Corinth, the only land-route from the Greek mainland to the Peloponnesian peninsula, and would trick ...