1940s After Paul Gauguin "Ta Matete - the Market", First Edition Swiss Full-Color Print

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A stunning vintage full-color print, of painting "Ta Matete (The Market)" (1892) by a major 19th-century painter, Paul Gauguin. Comes … Read more A stunning vintage full-color print, of painting "Ta Matete (The Market)" (1892) by a major 19th-century painter, Paul Gauguin. Comes from a rare First Limited Edition art folio published by Albert Skira in Geneva, Switzerland, in the 1940s. Printed on one side. Signed in the print at the lower left corner of the print, "Ta Matete". Numbered at the lower right corner: 3. Detailed. Excellent condition - minor edge wear on the white border, never framed.

Here again are blue trees and violet shadows. Referring to these, Strindberg remarked: "I've just been looking at trees that no botanist could ever give a name to." Here Impressionism blazed a trail for the artist's imagination that Matisse and the Fauves were to follow up. Here, too, Gauguin stylizes Egyptian art; we see this in the profiles, gestures, and even in the shape of the garments. He often has in mind Puvis de Chavannes, whom he much appreciated; though as the thoroughgoing symbolist he set out to be, Gauguin did not take over the allegorical and decorative methods of his senior. See less