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Source Description
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.
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Document identity
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311853
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Caricature of Paul Gauguin
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drawing
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Source metadata
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311853
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drawing
title
Caricature of Paul Gauguin
description
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.
date
1889
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79873635
creators
46188
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 19.9 x 15.5 cm (7 13/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
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France, 19th century
accession
2018.75
Source extras
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watercolor and black ink on paper
tombstone
Caricature of Paul Gauguin, 1889. Émile Bernard (French, 1868–1941). Watercolor and black ink on paper; sheet: 19.9 x 15.5 cm (7 13/16 x 6 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of William Kelly Simpson in memory of his wife Marilyn M. Simpson and her grandfather, John D. Rockefeller Jr., 2018.75
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
upper edge, above image, in pen and brown ink: Caricature de P. Gauguin / in pale brown ink: (Coastal Indian)
inscription
in pen and brown ink: 1889 / E. Bernard
inscription
lower right: E. Bernard 89
inscription
verso: long inscription in pen and brown ink
citations
citation
Lemonedes, Heather, Belinda Thomson, Agnieszka Juszczak. <em>Paul Gauguin: the Breakthrough into Modernity</em>. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 177, 238; Reproduced: p. 178, cat. 102,
citation
Jaulme, André and Henri Moncel. <em>Cinquantenaire du symbolisme, exposition de manuscrits autographes, estampes, peintures, sculptures, éditions rares, portraits, objets d’art</em>. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1936
citation
Sotheby's, London. <em>Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Drawings, Watercolours and Sculpture</em>. April 8, 1976. Lot 279.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 77, no. 279
citation
Christie's, London. <em>The Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann Collection: Impressionist & Modern Art</em>. April 9, 2002. Lot 38.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 49, no. 38
creditline
Bequest of William Kelly Simpson in memory of his wife Marilyn M. Simpson and her grandfather, John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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2026-05-29 08:54:28.409000
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311853
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Drawings
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DR - French
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watercolor and black ink on paper
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male
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