The Haystacks

Copyright

Work in the public domain
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Maker


1848-1903

Title

The Haystacks

Date of Production

1889

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 92 cm (canvas)
Width: 73.3 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1932.SC.162

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

On display
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Keywords

Label Text

In the 1880s, Paul Gauguin made several extended trips to Brittany in western France, attracted by the region’s remoteness and distinctive culture. This haymaking scene, captured during his third stay, is typical of the radically simplified approach he took to painting at this time. Forms are rendered as flat patches of vibrant colour, while three-dimensional relationships and perspective are deliberately ignored. Gauguin reduces the peasant women raking hay to the basic shapes of their black-and-white regional dress, presenting their actions as a timeless ritual.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed : bottom right & recto : P. Gauguin. '89

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris; Gabriel Frizeau, Bordeaux 1921 - 1923; Jos Hessel, dealer in Paris; purchased from Frizeau in April 1921 for 25,000 French francs along with another, unidentified, work 1923 - 1932 : purchase, Samuel Courtauld, London from Hessel along with Bathers at Tahiti; Samuel Courtauld Gift 1932

Exhibition History

Masterpieces of Impressionism from The Courtauld Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 10/09/2019-15/12/2019; Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 03/01/2020-15/03/2020; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, 28/03/2020-21/06/2020
The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019
Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cezanne, National Gallery, London, 17/09/2018-20/01/2019
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Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld in the 20's, Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2013-08/09/2013
Into the 20th century - New Displays at the Courtauld, Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/2002
Vincent Van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard, Saint Louis & USA, 17/02/2001-13/05/2001
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
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Literature

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998

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