1889
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Caricature of Paul Gauguin is a 1889 by Émile Bernard, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a man with a long nose, bushy beard, and a fancy walking stick sitting like a king on a throne. This is Paul Gauguin, drawn by his friend Émile Bernard in 1889. They worked together in a small French village, trying out bold new ways to paint. The stick looks like a royal scepter—Bernard is poking fun at Gauguin’s big personality and his role as a leader in their group. To see more of their playful, imaginative work, look up the subject *france, 19th century*.
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.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Émile Henri Bernard (French pronunciation: ; 28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne.
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