{"id":191225,"date":"2026-08-14T14:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/?post_type=product&p=191225"},"modified":"2026-08-15T15:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:29:06","slug":"faaturuma-melancholic","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/en\/paul-gauguin\/faaturuma-melancholic\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Gauguin \u2013 Faaturuma (Melancholic)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faaturuma (Melancholic) \u2013 a picture hanging on the wall behind her<\/h2>\n

The woman sits on a wooden chair with a curved frame, turned slightly to the left. She wears a long pink-red dress that falls to the floor and covers her feet; in her lap she holds a white cloth. She has raised her right hand to her chin and cheek and tilted her head a little. Behind her stands a deep blue wall. At the upper left, on that wall, hangs a framed picture with a landscape in greens and cream, and beside it a pale opening lets in a faint light. The floor is olive yellow. At the lower right the signature is painted with the year. The work is held by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art under the inventory number 38-5.<\/p>\n

A picture inside the picture<\/h3>\n

On the blue wall behind the seated figure hangs a framed landscape. It is small but clearly painted: one sees green fields, a pale path and the sky, all closed inside a dark frame. It is the only rectangle in a scene otherwise made entirely of curves \u2013 the rounded chair back, the bent arm, the soft folds of the dress. That is why the eye stops at it, although it takes up only a small part of the canvas.<\/p>\n

Two spaces on one canvas<\/h3>\n

That tiny framed landscape brings another place into the room. Outside the frame is an interior: blue wall, olive floor, chair. Inside the frame is open country, with light and distance. The picture therefore shows a closed room and a view out of it at the same time, without needing a window to do it.<\/p>\n

How the museum gives the measurement and the signature<\/h3>\n

The museum record gives the measurement first in inches and then, in brackets, in centimetres: 93.98 x 68.26 cm, as height by width. It places the signature at the lower right, together with the year, and there it is indeed visible on the canvas. Record and painting therefore agree.<\/p>\n

How a hand-painted reproduction is made<\/h3>\n

Every reproduction here is hand-painted in oil on canvas, stroke by stroke. In this motif the pink-red dress is the hardest part: it fills almost half the canvas and must stay alive, or the scene stiffens into an even surface. Before dispatch you receive a photograph of the finished work for approval.<\/p>\n