The Large Tree (Q60472839)
Label from: English (en)
artist:
Paul Gauguin (Q37693)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location of final assembly:
France (Q142)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.263
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: Disgusted with the materialism of European society, Gauguin abandoned his family and career as a stockbroker and departed for Tahiti in 1891. This canvas is among the first paintings he completed on the island. Its rich colors and stylized figures were intended to be both symbolic and mysterious, evoking private thoughts and emotions. “I obtain symphonies,” he wrote, “harmonies that represent nothing real in the absolute sense of the word.”
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