Paul Gauguin - Mother and Daughter 1901, with description

Paul Gauguin - Mother and Daughter 1901

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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
Gauguin based this formidable composition on a photograph of two women seated side by side on the stoop of a house. He painted it just before or after his 1901 departure from Tahiti for the Marquesas Islands.

Unlike his Impressionist friends, Degas was an essentially urban painter, who
liked to paint the enclosed spaces of stage shows, leisure activities and
pleasure spots.In a cafe, a fashionable meeting place, a man and a woman,
although sitting side-by-side, are locked in silent isolation - art-Degas.com

The portrait of Madame Cézanne in a yellow armchair is as simple in
appearance as it is monumental. The subject’s individuality seems to
have been less important to Cézanne than his construction of the figure
from coloured forms of an almost stereometric nature - art-Cezanne.com

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Paul Gauguin 1848-1903