{"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":"2026-10-18T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:24:07","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 – 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