Volpini Suite: Women Washing Clothes (verso)
1894
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1894
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Volpini Suite: Women Washing Clothes (verso) is a 1894 by Paul Gauguin, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see two women scrubbing clothes in a shallow stream, their bodies bent over the water. Gauguin carved this image into a woodblock himself, leaving rough, uneven lines. The jagged edges weren’t a mistake—they were meant to feel raw and real, like the life he saw in Tahiti. He planned to use these prints in a book about his time there, but the book was never finished. Look up *impasto* to see how other artists built up paint for a similar rough texture.
