Still Life
Paul Gauguin · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked public domain in The Met Collection API (isPublicDomain).
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About this picture
Still Life is a public-domain painting by Paul Gauguin. Oil on canvas. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Still Life” (date not listed) 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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