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Douarnenez in Sunshine

Artist: Maxime Maufra (French, 1861–1918)

Date: 1897

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

About the Artist: Maxime Maufra’s painting style is a dynamic blend of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Synthetism. He is best known for his sweeping marine views and rugged coastal landscapes of Brittany and Normandy, characterized by luminous colors, energetic outlines, and a unique balance between realism and bold structural design

Merahi Metua no Tehamana (Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana)

Artist: Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)

Date: 1893

Medium: Oil on jute canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

In this portrait, the 13-year-old Tahitian girl named Tehamana appears stoic, shoulders squared and gaze unflinching. She wears a missionary dress and wields a Samoan fan as white flowers tumble from her hair. The ripe mango beside her alludes to fertility. In the background, Gauguin combined various non-European emblems - glyphs derived from an Easter Island tablet and a female deity inspired by Polynesian and Hindu sources - to build a generic sense of foreigness and mystery, transforming Tehamana into the embodiment of his own desire.

Paul Gauguin’s "Te raau rahi (The Big Tree)" (1891) was painted on rough jute instead of canvas, giving the surface a raw, textured vibration. The figures almost disappear into the dense tropical landscape, making the garden itself feel like the true subject of the painting. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

Nude Female Model, oil on canvas (1891) by Pekka Halonen

Halonen chronicled the Finnish landscape and its people. He had an early interest in Symbolism, but Gauguin’s decorative Synthetism, as well as Japanese woodcuts, had a deeper impression on his work.