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Gauguin in the South Seas Art Appreciation Lecture Series 2014 Realism to Surrealism: European art and culture 1848-1936 Gauguin in the South Seas Dr Jaime Tsai 11/12 June 2014 Lecture summary: A little over a hundred years ago Paul Gauguin set out on a quest to live as a savage in “ecstasy, calmness and art… far from the European struggle for money”. With an examination of several paintings from his time in the French colonies of the South Seas, this lecture explores the complexities and contradictions of a restless artist pursuing the exotic. Slide list: 1. Gauguin, Self-Portrait, 1889, oil on wood, 79.2 x 51.3cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington 2. Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Snake Charmer, c. 1870, Oil on canvas, 83.8 x 122.1 cm, Sterling and Francine Clark Collection, Williamstown 3. *Gauguin, The Vision After the Sermon, 1888, oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm, National Gallery of Scotland (Edinburgh) 4. Unknown artist, Panorama of the Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1889 , printed in Magasin du Printemps, 1889 5. Gauguin, Nave nave fenua (Delightful land), from Noa Noa (Fragrance)1894, woodcut printed in colour with stencils, 35.5 x 20 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 6. *Gauguin, Idol with a Shell, 1892 – 1893, ironwood, mother-of-pearl, teeth and bone, 34.4 x 14.8 x 18.5 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris 7. Gauguin, Femme cueillant des fruits et Oviri, 1893, woodcut, 18.2x14.6cm, AGNSW 8. Gauguin, Vahine no te tiare, Woman with a flower, 1891, paint on lindenwood, 70 x 46 cm, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen 9. Gauguin, Two women on the beach, 1891, oil on canvas, 69 x 91.5 cm, Musee d'Orsay, Paris 10. Gauguin, Te nave nave fenua (Delightful land, Fragrant land) 1892, oil on canvas, 91 x 72 cm, Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki 11. Gauguin, Aha oe feii? What, are you jealous? 1892, oil on canvas, 66 x 89 cm, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Proudly sponsored by 12. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, 1814, oil on canvas, 0.91 x 1.62m, Louvre, Paris 13. *Gauguin, Te matete, The market, 1892, oil on canvas, Kunstmuseum (Basel) 14. *Gauguin, Merahi metua no Tehamana, Tehamana has Many Ancestors, 1893, oil on canvas, 76 cm x 54 cm, Art Institute of Chicago 15. Gauguin, Two Tahitian Women, 1899, 94 x 72.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 16. *Gauguin, Mana’o tupapa’u, Spirit of the dead watching, 1892, oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York 17. Artemisia Gentileschi, Susanna and the Elders, 1610, oil on canvas, 1.70m by 1.21m, Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden, Germany 18. Manet, Olympia, 1863-65, oil on canvas, 130.5 x 190 cm, Musee d'Orsay, Paris 19. Gauguin, Self-portrait with a hat, 1893-94, oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm, Musee d'Orsay, Paris 20. Gauguin, Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? 1897, oil on canvas, 139 x 374 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Reference: Danielsson, Bengt, Gauguin in the South Seas (New York: Doubleday, 1966) Eisenman, Stephen, Gauguin’s Skirt (London: Thames and Hudson, 1997) Gauguin, Paul, Noa Noa: the Tahiti journal of Paul Gauguin, ed. John Miller (San Francisco: Chronicle, 2005) Gauguin, Paul, Gauguin’s Letters From the South Seas, trans. Ruth Pielkovo (New York: Dover, 1992) Pollock, Griselda, Avant-Garde Gambits 1888-1893, Gender and the Colour of Art History (London: Thames and Hudson, 1992) Solomon-Godeau, Abigail, ‘Going Native,’ reproduced in Post-Impressionism to World War II, ed. Debbie Lewer (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006) 304-319 Images: Gauguin, Mana’o tupapa’u, Spirit of the dead watching, 1892, oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Gauguin, Te matete, The market, 1892, oil on canvas, 73 x 92cm, Kunstmuseum, Basel Gauguin, Idol with a Shell, 1892 – 1893, ironwood, mother-of-pearl, teeth and bone, 34.4 x 14.8 x 18.5 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris Gauguin, The Vision After the Sermon, 1888, oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh Gauguin, Merahi metua no Tehamana, Tehamana has many ancestors, 1893, oil on canvas, 76 cm x 54 cm, Art Institute of Chicago .
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