1890
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Woman in Front of a Still Life by Cezanne is a 1890 oil by Paul Gauguin, a Impressionism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
This shows a woman sitting in front of a bowl of fruit on a table. The still life behind her is a Cézanne painting Gauguin owned. He signed his name right over the frame, like he claimed it as his own. Gauguin kept this painting for years. He said he’d never sell it, except in a real emergency. He finally did sell it to pay for doctor bills in Tahiti. Look up the Art Institute of Chicago for more Gauguin works.
The seated woman here remains unidentified, but the still-life painting dominating the background is well known: Paul Cezanne’s Still Life with Fruit Dish (1879–80; Museum of Modern Art, New York). Gauguin’s version is nearly the same scale as the original. In certain aspects of the compo-sition, Gauguin emulated Cezanne’s style, like the way he flattened the picture plane so that the woman appears to tip forward out of her chair. Before becoming an artist, Gauguin was an art collector. Cezanne’s Still Life —one of five or six works by the artist in Gauguin’s collection—was a touchstone in…
Bernheim-Jeune Galerie, Paris [according to Wildenstein 1964]. Ernest Brown and Phillips, Leicester Galleries, London by 1924 [see London 1924 and Wildenstein 1964]. Chester H. Johnson Gallery, Chicago, by 1925; sold to the Art Institute, 1925.
London, Stafford Gallery, Exhibition of Pictures by Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) and Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), November 23 and after, 1911, cat. 21, as Portrait of a Girl. London, The Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Works by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), July-August, 1924, cat. 45, as L’Arlésienne. The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 358, as Mlle. Marie Henry. The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 303 (pl. XLIX), as Mlle. Marie Henry.…
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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (; French: ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements.
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