The Large Tree
1891
Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
The Large Tree, 1891. Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903). Oil on fabric; framed: 92.4 x 112.7 x 6.4 cm (36 3/8 x 44 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.); unframed: 74 x 92.8 cm (29 1/8 x 36 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Barbara Ginn Griesinger 1975.263 Gauguin positions four women in a friezelike sequence seeking shelter under the dark green leaves of a large tree while the leaves of the second tree add a decorative pattern to the pink thatched roof. With his brush, he captures contrasting elements of the tropical climate, sending the viewer into the cool shade to escape the hot sun.
- Maker/Artist
- Gauguin, Paul
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 92.4 x 112.7 x 6.4 cm (36 3/8 x 44 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 74 x 92.8 cm (29 1/8 x 36 9/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower right: P Gauguin 91 Inscribed lower left: Te raau rahi
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1975.263
- Credit Line
- Gift of Barbara Ginn Griesinger
- Exhibitions
- Masters of Impressionism, Degas to Picasso: The Painter, the Sculptor and the Camera , Verso l'Arte Moderna, da Puvis de Chavannes a Matisse e Picasso, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Gauguin and Polynesia: South Pacific Encounters, Van Gogh Repetitions lend-back, Paul Gauguin: Painting Like God, <em>Paintings from El Greco and Rembrandt to Cézanne and Matisse</em>. Reinhardt Galleries, New York, NY (1927)., <em>French Art since 1800</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1929)., <em>A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin.</em> Wildenstein Gallery, New York, NY (1946).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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