Be in Love and You will be Happy (Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses)
Paul Gauguin · 1898-1899 · woodcut in light brown and black on chine collé
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About this picture
Be in Love and You will be Happy (Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses) is a public-domain illustration by Paul Gauguin, dated 1898-1899. Woodcut in light brown and black on chine collé. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Be in Love and You will be Happy (Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses)” (1898-1899) 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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