Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Paul Gauguin (French painter, 1848-1903)
Location:
repository: UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center (Los Angeles, California, United States)
Location Note:
10899 Wilshire Blvd.; The Armand Hammer Collection, Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation
GPS:
34.059444-118.443611
Date:
1889 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Nineteenth century; Post-Impressionist
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas and panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
74.9 cm (height) x 54.8 cm (width)
Subjects:
landscape; portrait; self-portrait; Courbet, Gustave; Hammer Museum; rural; peasants; Breton; Brittany
Description:
It was during his stay at the remote fishing village of Pont-Aven in Brittany on the northwestern French coast, that the artist painted Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin (1889). Almost centrally placed in Gauguin’s painting is the figure of the artist himself, bundled in a long and enveloping red cloak, a blue cap, and traditional Breton wooden clogs. He painted Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin after his visit to the Musée Fabre in Montpellier with Van Gogh in December of 1888, where he saw Gustav Courbet’s Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet. Although sharing few formal similarities, Gauguin’s painting is meant to be a response to Courbet. In both works, the artists are central and capture the viewer’s attention. They are representing themselves as a free roaming figure who dwells outside the constraints of society. (Source: Hammer Museum, UCLA [website]; http://hammer.ucla.e du/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-GAUGUIN-BR-BMG-A 01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin