Old Women of Arles
painting by Gauguin
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discussed in biography
- In Paul Gauguin: Early maturity
For example, Gauguin’s Old Women of Arles (Mistral) (1888) portrays a group of women moving through a flattened, arbitrarily conceived landscape in a solemn procession. As in much of his work from this period, Gauguin applied thick paint in a heavy manner to raw canvas; in his rough…
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