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    "localId": "311853",
    "label": "Caricature of Paul Gauguin",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing"
}

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    "id": "311853",
    "contentType": "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": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.75",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 19.9 x 15.5 cm (7 13/16 x 6 1/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 19th century"
    ],
    "accession": "2018.75"
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    "tec": "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 &amp; Modern Art</em>. April 9, 2002. Lot 38.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 49, no. 38"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.75",
    "creditline": "Bequest of William Kelly Simpson in memory of his wife Marilyn M. Simpson and her grandfather, John D. Rockefeller Jr.",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:54:28.409000",
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    "med": "watercolor and black ink on paper",
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        "male"
    ],
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}

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