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from 108,00 €A Farm in Brittany – a house with no people in it, and a single thread of smoke The picture lies across and is quiet. On the left and in the middle stand farm buildings with red-brown roofs and pale stone walls; three tall white chimneys rise from the roofs, […]
from 129,00 €Portrait of Suzanne Bambridge – the dress that swallows the figure The woman sits turned almost frontally towards us, in a long dark dress with a small floral pattern that covers her from the throat to the floor. At the neck she wears a broad pale trim, and her hands […]
from 129,00 €The Great Buddha – two openings of light in a dark room The picture stands upright and is largely dark: brown, reddish tones and deep blue dominate. In the middle rises a large carved statue with folded hands and closed eyes, set on a dark blue, folded base. In the […]
from 108,00 €Poèmes barbares (Barbarian Poems) – a signature that stands at the top of the canvas The centre of the picture is taken by a young woman, bare to the waist, with black hair falling on either side of her face. Her eyes are lowered, her right hand raised flat against […]
from 188,00 €Promenade Undergrowth – a canvas filled with foliage. Promenade Undergrowth is an oil painting on canvas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in 1910.
from 108,00 €Parau na te Varua ino (Words of the Devil) – who is watching in this picture On the right stands a nude female figure, turned directly towards us, with long dark hair and one hand raised to her chin. In the other hand she holds a white cloth. She stands […]
from 108,00 €Mata Mua (In Olden Times) – a single trunk that cuts the picture in two A grey-blue tree trunk rises the whole height of the canvas, so thick and so exactly placed that it halves the picture. Near the top a branch crosses it, running horizontally across the whole scene. […]
from 108,00 €Matamoe (Landscape with Peacocks) – a working day, with two peacocks set in front of it The picture stands upright and is full of incident, and yet the birds are what one notices first. In the lower left corner two peacocks walk across the green turf: the first blue-green, with […]
from 108,00 €Nave nave moe (Sacred Spring) – a Tahitian scene painted in France In the foreground two women sit on a broad pink surface. The one on the left has rested her head on her hand and closed her eyes; the one on the right sits upright and holds a small […]
from 140,00 €The scene is a night room: a man in a deep blue coat stands before windows filled with night blue, his eyes two dark hollows. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 108,00 €Aha oe feii? (What! Are You Jealous?) – a question painted into the corner of the canvas In 1892, during his first stay in Tahiti, Paul Gauguin painted two women on the sand beside water. One sits upright, knees drawn up, turned almost in profile to the right; she wears […]
from 188,00 €Strawberries – four surfaces, each returning the light differently. The Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris holds Strawberries, of 1905.
from 124,00 €The scene is a shore: a woman in a long white dress is leaving at the left, and her long golden-yellow hair streams horizontally across the whole canvas to the man at the right. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 188,00 €Still Life with Apples and Almonds – a narrow canvas, almost twice as wide as it is tall. Still Life with Apples and Almonds is an undated oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
from 124,00 €The scene is a night landscape seen from a rise: large stars burn above, and a broad pale snow slope with a path stretches below. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 188,00 €Flowers in a Vase – a dense bouquet that only separates at a distance. The Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris holds Flowers in a Vase, of 1898.
from 115,00 €The scene is a wooden veranda whose railing runs diagonally into the depth, with two figures standing beside it, turned away from the viewer. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 219,00 €Still Life with Bouquet and Fan – objects that catch the light each in its own way. Still Life with Bouquet and Fan is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1871.
from 108,00 €Ta matete (The Market) – five figures in a row on a single bench In 1892, during his first stay on Tahiti, Paul Gauguin painted five women seated in a row on a long green bench. Each is shown in profile or nearly so, and several hold a flat fan […]
from 219,00 €Still Life: Flowers – a bouquet that grows upward. Still Life: Flowers is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1885.
from 108,00 €The scene looks down from above on a Mediterranean town at night: pale flat-fronted houses step down the slope, and a broad sky stretches above them. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 108,00 €The scene is a snow-covered spruce wood: dark trunks rise out of deep snow, and a heavy dark canopy fills the upper half. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 219,00 €Blonde Bather – a look straight out of the painting. Blonde Bather is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1881.
from 108,00 €The scene is a night shore: a pale moon stands high in the sky, and its reflection falls on completely still water as a long, straight column of light. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 108,00 €Christ in the Garden of Olives – a red-haired Christ and the figures walking away In 1889 Paul Gauguin painted Christ in the garden, in the moment just before the arrest. The figure sits at the lower left of the canvas, bowed forward, in a dark olive cloak, hands laid […]
from 188,00 €Bathers with a Crab – four figures on a rocky shore. Bathers with a Crab is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted around 1890 to 1899.
from 115,00 €The scene is woodland: children seen from behind stand on a grassy slope before a row of dark spruces, with a light path winding away at the right. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 130,00 €The scene is a crowd of workers in caps and dark coats surging straight towards the viewer and filling the whole width of the canvas. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 219,00 €Young Girl Bathing – a background you can see the bare canvas through in places. Young Girl Bathing is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1892.
from 132,00 €The scene is a sickroom: a sick girl sits in an armchair by a window through which strong spring light pours into the room. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 219,00 €Long-haired Bather – a canvas held upright by a single vertical. Long-haired Bather is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1895 and 1896.
from 108,00 €Te arii vahine (The King’s Wife) – the canvas Gauguin itemised in his own letter In 1896, during his second stay on Tahiti, Paul Gauguin painted a woman lying on green grass, a red fan behind her head and a white flower at her ear. In front of her, on […]
from 219,00 €After the Bath – a body with no contour, held together by difference of colour alone. After the Bath is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1910.
from 219,00 €Diana – a nude that had to become a goddess before it could be shown. Diana is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1867.
from 219,00 €Bather with a Griffon – Salon drawing of the figure and freely painted foliage on one canvas. Bather with a Griffon Dog is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1870.
from 140,00 €The scene is an almost bare room with a high ceiling and a plank floor, in which a family has gathered. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 108,00 €Vincent van Gogh Painting Sunflowers – Gauguin’s portrait of a painter at work In December 1888, during the nine weeks Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh shared a house in Arles, Gauguin painted his host at work. Van Gogh is at the right of the canvas, in three-quarter view, with […]
from 124,00 €The painter shows himself at half length, turned straight towards the viewer, a cigarette burning between the fingers of a raised hand. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 188,00 €Nymph by a Stream – a nude laid right across the length of the canvas. A Nymph by a Stream is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1869 and 1870.
from 124,00 €The scene looks down from a balcony onto a Paris boulevard: a man in a top hat leans on the wrought-iron railing and stares into the depth of the street. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 135,00 €The scene is a jetty by the shore: three girls stand at the white railing, a dark lime-tree crown and a pale house rise behind them, and a faint moon hangs at the left. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 188,00 €The Bathers – a canvas from the last two years, painted thin enough to see through. The Bathers is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1918 and 1919.
from 108,00 €Tahitian Women on the Beach – Gauguin’s first Tahitian canvas and two dresses In November and December 1891, a few weeks after he landed on Tahiti, Paul Gauguin painted two women seated side by side on the sand. The one on the left is shown in profile, in a white […]
from 132,00 €The scene shows dancers on the grass beside the sea under a moon whose reflection falls on the water as a single upright column of light. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 188,00 €The Large Bathers – a canvas painted two ways at the same time. The Large Bathers is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made between 1884 and 1887.
from 108,00 €The scene is a sickbed: a pale, red-haired girl is propped against a large white pillow and looks to one side. We paint it by hand as an oil painting on canvas.
from 108,00 €The Siesta – Gauguin’s Tahitian veranda and an ordinary afternoon Between 1892 and 1894, in his first Tahitian period, Paul Gauguin painted a scene in which nothing much happens: four women pass the afternoon on a covered veranda. One is ironing linen, a second lies propped on her elbow in […]
from 108,00 €Two Tahitian Women – Gauguin’s late Tahitian pair with mango blossoms In 1899, in his last Tahitian years and shortly before he left for the Marquesas, Paul Gauguin painted two women placed side by side and cut off above the knee. One holds a shallow dish of red mango blossoms; […]
from 129,00 €Merahi metua no Tehamana – Gauguin’s portrait of Tehamana and her ancestors In 1893 Paul Gauguin painted the portrait of Tehamana, his Tahitian companion, and titled it Merahi metua no Tehamana – Tehamana has many parents. The girl sits facing the viewer directly, in a blue-and-white striped mission dress with […]
from 108,00 €Arlesiennes (Mistral) – Gauguin’s Arles autumn, painted on jute In the autumn of 1888, during the shared stay with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin painted the Arlesiennes in Arles. The work measures 73 x 92 cm – the museum states height first and width second – so it is a […]
from 108,00 €Mahana no atua (Day of the God) – Gauguin’s Tahitian altar built out of colour Paul Gauguin painted Mahana no atua in Paris in 1894, between his two stays on Tahiti. It records no ceremony he actually witnessed; it is an image assembled from memory. A dark idol stands in […]
from 108,00 €Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) – Gauguin’s turning point at Pont-Aven In 1888, at Pont-Aven in Brittany, Paul Gauguin painted a canvas that falls into two worlds: in the foreground Breton peasant women in white coifs kneel in prayer, while on the far side of the […]
from 130,00 €Still Life with Apples and Peaches – the work the catalogue names after a vessel nobody looks at On a wooden table with a scalloped edge, on a white plate, lies a heap of apples and peaches, yellow, orange and red. At the left stands a pale pitcher with a [...]
from 130,00 €The Gardener Vallier – a man with three trades in the record An elderly man in a dark cap sits turned slightly to the left, his hands crossed in his lap. He wears a dark blue-green coat that takes up almost the whole centre of the canvas; the face is [...]
from 130,00 €Pines and Rocks (Fontainebleau?) – the canvas lent to a museum before the museum owned it Three bare pine trunks rise the whole height of the canvas, and in front of them and behind them stands a dense blue-green wall of foliage, laid in short diagonal strokes. The lower third [...]
from 130,00 €A Modern Olympia – the canvas its own owner painted a second time On white drapery in the middle of the canvas a female nude reclines, and above her a servant with a raised arm draws back the cloth. At the lower right a bearded man in a dark coat [...]
from 130,00 €The Mill on the Couleuvre near Pontoise – a landscape you can check on the spot A tall mill with a pale façade and a steep ochre roof stands among greenery beside the water, a little left of the centre of the canvas. Below it lies a low wooden hut, [...]
from 130,00 €Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley – the canvas where the catalogue contradicts itself Two ochre houses with reddish roofs stand in the upper half of the canvas, surrounded by slopes painted in parallel diagonal strokes of green, ochre and blue. Below, a pale road runs the full width. The [...]
from 130,00 €The Garden at Les Lauves – the canvas where the priming shows The lower third is taken up by a low wall, painted in a few ochre and green strokes. Above it a band of green opens out – trees, scrub, perhaps gardens – in green, blue and brownish patches [...]
from 130,00 €The Bridge over the Marne at Créteil – one canvas, four Moscow institutions The lower half of the canvas is taken up by still water in which trees, bridge and houses are reflected vertically; the reflection is painted at the same density as the thing it reflects. Above it a [...]
from 130,00 €Turn in the Road at Auvers-sur-Oise – the canvas exhibited for decades under the wrong region's name A pale ochre road comes in from the lower left, turns to the right and disappears behind a low stone wall. Beyond the wall farmhouses rise with grey and brownish roofs, and around [...]
from 130,00 €The Village of Gardanne – the canvas confiscated as enemy property The houses climb the hill in steps, one above another: ochre and reddish walls, flat roofs, narrow shadows between them. At the top stands a church steeple, the only vertical accent in the whole upper half. Below runs a [...]
from 130,00 €The Red Rock – a canvas with only three owners The canvas is upright, which is unusual for a landscape. From the upper right corner a large red-orange rock face comes down, smooth and almost without detail, like a curtain of stone. At the left and below stands dense green [...]
from 130,00 €The Bibémus Quarry – the canvas that left the museum and came back The canvas is filled almost entirely with stone. The steep red-orange walls of the quarry are cut into flat faces that rise one above another like masonry; among them and above them stand dark green pines and [...]
from 130,00 €The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque – the village, the sea and a factory chimney In the lower third of the canvas the ochre and red roofs of the village press together, and among them rises a tall narrow factory chimney. Above the roofs the deep blue plane of [...]
from 130,00 €The House of the Hanged Man at Auvers-sur-Oise – a canvas from the first Impressionist exhibition The country road bends to the right in the foreground, between farmhouses with thick thatched roofs. At the left two bare trees rise the full height of the canvas; at the right a steep [...]
from 130,00 €Mont Sainte-Victoire and Château Noir – the canvas that left for Japan in 1922 At the left and along the bottom the canvas is closed by dark green trees, painted in short dense touches. Among them an ochre building appears with dark window openings: the Château Noir. Behind it lifts [...]
from 130,00 €Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bibémus – the canvas two sisters from Baltimore bought In the foreground stand ochre blocks of the quarry, cut into flat faces, with low green scrub growing on them; at the right a pine rises the full height of the canvas on a thin dark branch. [...]
from 130,00 €The Murder – three works under one title The canvas is dark almost throughout: a low horizon, above it a heavy brown-black sky, and a single lighter patch at the upper right. Three figures are on the ground. At the left a man in a white shirt and blue trousers, [...]
from 130,00 €Still Life with Apples – a work built on two pieces of cloth On the table stand, side by side, a green olive jar with a terracotta foot, a raffia-wrapped bottle, a blue and white ginger pot caught in a net of cord, a small lidded sugar pot with a [...]
from 130,00 €Seated Man – what is in his hand, and why the record cannot agree about it A grey-haired man with a grey moustache sits facing the viewer, in a dark coat, a white shirt and a black bow tie. Both hands rest on his knees; under the left one lies [...]
from 130,00 €Peasant in a Blue Smock – the canvas a museum bought in memory of its first director The man sits turned slightly to one side, in a loose blue working smock, with a red neckerchief at the open collar and a soft brown hat on his head. His hands are [...]
from 130,00 €Portrait of Antony Valabrègue – the canvas an auction brought into a museum The man sits close in front of a grey-green wall laid on in broad, plainly visible strokes. He has dark hair and a full reddish-brown beard, and he wears a black coat, a grey waistcoat with three [...]
from 130,00 €Portrait of Gustave Geffroy – the canvas its painter gave up on Gustave Geffroy sits at a table in his own study, leaning slightly forward, his hands together above an open book. Behind him a wall of shelves climbs to the top edge of the canvas, the spines painted as [...]
from 135,00 €Portrait of the Painter Achille Emperaire – the name written across the top Right at the top of the canvas, in large gold-ochre capitals, stands the inscription: ACHILLE EMPERAIRE PEINTRE. Below it a man sits frontally and symmetrically in a tall armchair whose arched back rises well above his head, [...]
from 130,00 €Young Italian Woman at a Table – the cloth whose colours the catalogue writes down A young woman sits at a table, her head tipped and resting on her right hand, the elbow planted on the top. She wears a white blouse with full gathered sleeves; a gold-yellow sash runs [...]
from 130,00 €Woman with a Coffeepot – the catalogue does not know who she is The woman sits square to the viewer and fills almost the whole height of a large canvas. Her dark hair is drawn back, her face calm and frontal. She wears a blue dress buttoned to the throat, [...]
from 130,00 €Madame Cézanne in Blue – a single colour holds the whole work The sitter is painted almost frontally, turned only a fraction; her dark hair is centre-parted and drawn back. She wears a blue jacket with a white turned collar that fills the lower two thirds of the canvas. Behind [...]
from 130,00 €Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress – a room with everything carried out of it The sitter faces the viewer square on, her dark hair centre-parted and drawn back. She wears a dark red, almost maroon dress with a soft belt knotted at the waist and long sleeves; her hands [...]
from 130,00 €Madame Cézanne in a Striped Skirt – two patterns in one work The woman sits square to the viewer, her dark hair drawn up. She wears a blue-grey bodice with a soft bow at the throat, her hands folded in her lap, and the lower half of the canvas is [...]
from 130,00 €Self-Portrait with a Pink Background – the work named after its wall The painter is bare-headed, the head turned to the right. The crown is high and bald, dark hair remains at the sides and behind, a large ear is exposed at the left, and the jaw is covered by [...]
from 130,00 €Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat – the other hat The painter has shown himself almost frontally, the head slightly turned. On it sits a broad straw hat laid in a strong yellow, its brim falling at the right and a darker band running round the crown. A thick brown beard [...]
from 130,00 €The Stove in the Studio – the canvases stand with their backs to the room At the centre stands a small cast-iron stove on curved feet; through the grate open at the front the red embers show. On its plate squats a large dark pot with two handles and a [...]
from 130,00 €Self-Portrait with a Soft Hat – in the catalogue the hat is a heading of its own The painter has shown himself at a three-quarter turn: the body faces left, the head to the right. On his head sits a soft olive-ochre hat with the brim bent down, its shadow [...]
from 130,00 €Milk Can and Apples – the catalogue knows which room it was painted in At the left stands a tall cylindrical milk vessel, blue-grey, with a flat lid and a dark seam down its side. The centre is held by a white napkin, folded into sharp edges that do not [...]
from 130,00 €Flowers in a Ginger Jar and Fruit – the exhibition title that says where the canvas had been Out of a blue-and-white vessel seated in a woven cane basket rises a dense bouquet: white daisies, two deep red blooms, pale pink petals and small orange buds among dark green leaves. [...]
from 130,00 €Straw-Trimmed Vase, Sugar Bowl and Apples – the year was written by the painter's son A blue-grey vase bound with straw that crosses over its belly in an X, a white sugar bowl with a small lid beside it, and in front a plate of apples – yellow, yellow-green and [...]
from 130,00 €Still Life with Soup Tureen – Pissarro's painting, from Pontoise A large cream soup tureen with a lid, painted with an orange-red festoon and tassels, a dark bottle standing behind it, a wicker basket heaped with yellow, green and dark red apples, and two apples that have rolled onto the [...]
from 130,00 €Bowl and Milk-Jug – a piece of a larger canvas Two objects and nothing else: at the left a tall blue-grey milk pot with a lid, at the right a white bowl with an orange rim and green leaf sprigs, both on a warm ochre wooden surface, with a dark [...]
from 130,00 €Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears – one red line across the white A grey-green ginger pot bound about with plaited straw, a pomegranate with its stalk, green and reddish pears and a shallow white dish – all on a wooden table from which a white cloth falls. The canvas [...]