Caricature of Paul Gauguin

1889

Émile Bernard

Émile Bernard (French, 1868–1941)

Drawings

Caricature of Paul Gauguin, 1889. Émile Bernard (French, 1868–1941). Watercolor and black ink on paper; sheet: 19.9 x 15.5 cm (7 13/16 x 6 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of William Kelly Simpson in memory of his wife Marilyn M. Simpson and her grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 2018.75 Émile Bernard worked closely with Paul Gauguin in the village of Pont-Aven during the late 1880s, adopting a new style that emphasized imagination rather than observed reality. This caricatural portrait dates to their most intense period of collaboration, and shows Gauguin as the leader of a new school of painting, seated regally and holding a walking stick that resembles a scepter.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Bernard, Émile
Classification: Drawing
Formatted Medium: watercolor and black ink on paper
Medium: watercolor, black, ink, paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 19.9 x 15.5 cm (7 13/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: upper edge, above image, in pen and brown ink: Caricature de P. Gauguin / in pale brown ink: (Coastal Indian) Inscription: in pen and brown ink: 1889 / E. Bernard Inscription: lower right: E. Bernard 89 Inscription: verso: long inscription in pen and brown ink
Departments: Drawings
Accession Number: 2018.75
Credit Line: Bequest of William Kelly Simpson in memory of his wife Marilyn M. Simpson and her grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Exhibitions: Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889, <em>Cinquantenaire du Symbolisme</em>. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (1936).
Rights Statement: CC0