1950s After Paul Gauguin "The Call", First Edition Photogravure

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A stunning vintage First Edition offset lithograph after "L'Appel" (The Call, 1902) painting by Paul Gauguin from a First Limited … more A stunning vintage First Edition offset lithograph after "L'Appel" (The Call, 1902) painting by Paul Gauguin from a First Limited Edition art folio published in the mid of the 20th century. Printed on one side. Hand tipped on a board of heavy paper. Information regarding the original artwork will be found by lifting the plate. Very detailed. Gorgeous colors. Excellent condition - never framed.

Overall 10.75"W x 14.5"H
Image 6.85"W x 10.15"H

This painting shows two native women among trees on the banks of a small river, and behind them a crouching nude figure in a position that transforms her body into a solid plastic block. Gauguin has represented this same figure in various other paintings and prints. Vertical lines, stressed by the standing women and the trees at the left and right, are balanced by the horizontal stream and the expanse of the pink bank in the foreground, the green slope beyond the water. The crouching woman constitutes a resting point where verticals and horizontal meet. The compact mass of her body provides a perfect balance for the composition, while the dark spot of stones and flowers at the bottom of the canvas finds an echo in dark green leaves set against the somber sky at the top. Thus a complete harmony is achieved, a harmony not only of colors and lines, but also of subject and representation. Forgetting his worries and sufferings the artist has found here a happy expression of the nature and the people he so deeply loved. less