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Claude-Emile Schuffenecker worked closely with Paul Gauguin to form Synthetism, a style of art that broke from Impressionism in favor of flat planes of bold color and invented subjects. This drawing, which exists in two versions, is one of Schuffenecker’s most important works from the period. The other interpretation (owned by the Art Institute of Chicago) was featured in an influential 1889 exhibition organized by Gauguin and Schuffenecker at the Café Volpini on the grounds of the Universal Exposition. Both artists saw imagery of seaweed gatherers—a task undertaken by working-class people in rural French coastal towns—as exemplifying the simplicity they sought in their art.
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167712
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Seaweed Gatherers, Yport
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167712
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drawing
title
Seaweed Gatherers, Yport
description
Claude-Emile Schuffenecker worked closely with Paul Gauguin to form Synthetism, a style of art that broke from Impressionism in favor of flat planes of bold color and invented subjects. This drawing, which exists in two versions, is one of Schuffenecker’s most important works from the period. The other interpretation (owned by the Art Institute of Chicago) was featured in an influential 1889 exhibition organized by Gauguin and Schuffenecker at the Café Volpini on the grounds of the Universal Exposition. Both artists saw imagery of seaweed gatherers—a task undertaken by working-class people in rural French coastal towns—as exemplifying the simplicity they sought in their art.
date
c. 1889
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q80072569
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56133
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Drawing
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import
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Sheet: 29.2 x 22.7 cm (11 1/2 x 8 15/16 in.); Framed: 57.2 x 49.8 x 4.5 cm (22 1/2 x 19 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
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France, 19th century
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2009.38
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black chalk
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Seaweed Gatherers, Yport, c. 1889. Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (French, 1851–1934). Black chalk; sheet: 29.2 x 22.7 cm (11 1/2 x 8 15/16 in.); framed: 57.2 x 49.8 x 4.5 cm (22 1/2 x 19 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from Samuel and Paul Josefowitz in tribute to Jane Glaubinger and Heather Lemonedes, 2009.380
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brown wove paper
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DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
signed, lower right, in graphite: Schuffenecker [underlined]; on verso, lower right, in graphite: P
didYouKnow
This drawing is one of numerous depictions of seaweed gatherers that Claude-Emile Schuffenecker created throughout his career in various media.
citations
citation
Rochefoucauld, Antoine de la. "Emile Schufffenecker." <em>Le Coeur</em> (July 1894): 3-8.
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Mentioned: p. 5
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"Émile Schuffenecker." <em>Revue Encyclopédique</em> (1896): 236-37.
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Mentioned: p. 237
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<em>Exposition de peintures et pastels par E. Schuffenecker</em>. Exh. Cat. Paris: Librairie de l'art indépendant, 1896.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 41
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<em>Claude-Emile Schuffenecker: Margin and Image</em>. Exh. Cat. New York: University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1980.
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Mentioned: p. 29
citation
<em>European Nineteenth-Century Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture</em>. Exh. Cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1989.
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Mentioned and reproduced: no. 53
citation
Grossvogel, Jill, and Catherine Puget. <em>Emile Schuffenecker, 1851-1934</em>. Exh. Cat. Pont-Aven: Musée de Pont-Aven, 1996.
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Mentioned: p. 54, no. 29
citation
Grossvogel, Jill-Elyse. <em>Claude-Emile Schuffenecker: Catalogue Raisonné</em>. (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 2000).
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: vol. I, p. 166, no. 4450
citation
Lemonedes, Heather, Belinda Thomson, Agnieszka Juszczak, et al. <em>Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2009.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 67, no. 49
catalogueRaisonne
Grossvogel 450
creditline
Gift from Samuel and Paul Josefowitz in tribute to Jane Glaubinger and Heather Lemonedes
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2026-05-29 08:38:28.588000
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167712
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