Still Life with Cat
Paul Gauguin · c. 1899 · Watercolor on cream laid paper, laid down on cream Japanese paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Still Life with Cat is a public-domain drawing by Paul Gauguin, dated c. 1899. Watercolor on cream laid paper, laid down on cream Japanese paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Still Life with Cat” (c. 1899) is from Gauguin’s years away from Paris. The color is laid in broad areas, and the place, when it is named, is Brittany or the Pacific.
About the artist
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) left a career in finance and painted in Brittany, Martinique, and then Tahiti and the Marquesas. He used flat areas of color, learned in part from prints.
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