Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed (lower left): P.Gauguin
Gallery Label Gauguin returned to France from Tahiti in August 1893. The following summer, he traveled to Brittany, where he remained for some six months. Breton culture, infused with vestiges of its pagan Celtic past, appealed to his taste for the primitive and the exotic. The two-year interlude that was Gauguin's last stay in France, from August 1893 to July 1895, marked a period of artistic transition for him. Here, the short, horizontal strokes of paint applied to the farmhouses recall the broken brushwork of his earlier, Impressionist works. His palette evokes that of his Tahitian paintings, lending an exotic flavor to this image of rural France.
Provenance Éduard Simon-Wolfskehl, Frankfurt; [Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich, in 1917]; Josef Stransky, New York (by 1921); [French & Co., New York]; Adolph Lewisohn, New York (by 1926–d. 1938; cat., 1928, pp. 158–59, ill.); his son, Samuel A. Lewisohn, New York (1938–d. 1951); his widow, Margaret Seligman Lewisohn, New York (1951–d. 1954)
Exhibition History New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Loan Exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings," May 3–September 15, 1921, no. 49 (as "Brittany Landscape," lent by Josef Stransky).
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Modern Works of Art," November 20, 1934–January 20, 1935, no. 11 (as "Landscape," lent from the Adolph Lewisohn collection).
San Francisco Museum of Art. "Paul Gauguin," September 5–October 4, 1936, no. 2 (as "Landscape").
New York. Wildenstein & Co., Inc.. "A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin," April 3–May 4, 1946, no. 9 (as "Landscape, Brittany," lent by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Lewisohn).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Lewisohn Collection," November 2–December 2, 1951, no. 33 (as "Farm in Brittany").
Art Institute of Chicago. "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12–March 29, 1959, no. 59 (as "Farm in Brittany").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," April 23–May 31, 1959, no. 59.
Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "Five Centuries of European Painting," May 16–October 26, 1963, unnumbered cat. (p. 48).
Nashville. Fisk University Museum of Art. "100 Years of European Painting," April 28–June 10, 1965, unnum. checklist.
London. Tate Gallery. "Gauguin and the Pont-Aven Group," January 7–February 13, 1966, no. 40.
Tokyo. National Museum of Modern Art. "Gauguin," August 23–September 30, 1969, no. 26 (as "Ferme en Bretagne").
Kyoto. National Museum of Modern Art. "Gauguin," October 5–November 7, 1969, no. 26.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Prints by Paul Gauguin," February 23–April 18, 1971, no. 53.
Amsterdam. Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh. "Franse meesters uit het Metropolitan Museum of Art: Realisten en Impressionisten," March 15–May 31, 1987, no. 30.
Fort Lauderdale. Museum of Art. "Corot to Cézanne: 19th Century French Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," December 22, 1992–April 11, 1993, no catalogue.
Graz. Landesmuseum Joanneum. "Paul Gauguin, von der Bretagne nach Tahiti: Ein Aufbruch zur Moderne," June 10–October 1, 2000, no. 32.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections," June 18–October 20, 2002, no. 18.
Paris. Musée du Luxembourg. "L'aventure de Pont-Aven et Gauguin," April 2–June 22, 2003, no. 117 (as "Ferme en Bretagne").
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper. "L'aventure de Pont-Aven et Gauguin," July 12–September 30, 2003, no. 117.
Naples. Castel Sant'Elmo. "Gauguin e la Bretagna," October 19, 2003–January 11, 2004, no. 77.
Martigny. Fondation Pierre Gianadda. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture européenne," June 23–November 12, 2006, no. 48.
Barcelona. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. "Grandes maestros de la pintura europea de The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York: De El Greco a Cézanne," December 1, 2006–March 4, 2007, no. 40.
Berlin. Neue Nationalgalerie. "Französische Meisterwerke des 19.Jahrhunderts aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," June 1–October 7, 2007, unnumbered cat.
References Fritz Burger. Cézanne und Hodler: Einführung in die Probleme der Malerei der Gegenwart . Munich, 1913, vol. 1, pp. 95–96, vol. 2, pl. 83.Loan Exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings . Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1921, p. 12.The Adolph Lewisohn Collection of Modern French Paintings and Sculptures . New York, 1928, pp. 157–59, ill.Modern Works of Art . Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1934, pp. 12, 23, no. 11, pl. 11.Paul Gauguin: Exhibition of Paintings and Prints . Exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Art. San Francisco, 1936, p. 15, no. 2, fig. 2.Painters and Personality: A Collector's View of Modern Art . [New York], 1937, p. xii, 60, 62, ill.A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin . Exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co., Inc. New York, 1946, p. 63, no. 9.Painters and Personality: A Collector's View of Modern Art . rev. ed. [1st ed. 1937]. New York, [1948], pp. 60, 62, ill.Gauguin: Sa vie ardente et misérable . Paris, 1948, ill. opp. p. 80.in Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture . Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1959, p. 56, no. 59.Gauguin . 1, French ed. [English ed. 1965]. Paris, 1964, pp. 215–16, no. 526, ill.Gauguin and the Pont-Aven Group . Exh. cat., Tate Gallery. London, 1966, p. 26, no. 40.Letter to Claire Weaver . March 17, 1966.Letter to Charles Moffett . April 2, 1980.Letter to Charles Moffett . March 17, 1980.in Franse meesters uit het Metropolitan Museum of Art: Realisten en Impressionisten . Exh. cat., Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam. Zwolle, The Netherlands, 1987, pp. 86–87, no. 30, ill. (color).Paul Gauguin . [Paris], 1989, p. 265.Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale) (December 20, 1992), p. 4D, ill. p. 1D.Miami Herald (December 20, 1992), p. 6I, ill. p. 1I.in Colta Ives and Susan Alyson Stein. The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections . Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2002, p. 219, no. 18, ill. p. 35 (color).in Colta Ives and Susan Alyson Stein. The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections . Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2002, pp. 166–68, 230, fig. 64 (installation photo).in L'aventure de Pont-Aven et Gauguin . Exh. cat., Musée du Luxembourg, Paris. Milan, 2003, pp. 306–7, 314–15, no. 117, ill. (color, overall and detail) [Italian ed., pp. 214–15, 220–21, no. 77, ill. (color, overall and detail)].in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture européenne . Exh. cat., Fondation Pierre Gianadda. Martigny, 2006, p. 22 [Catalan ed., Barcelona, 2006, p. 19].in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture européenne . Exh. cat., Fondation Pierre Gianadda. Martigny, 2006, pp. 246–48, no. 48, ill. (color) [Catalan ed., Barcelona, 2006, pp. 134–35, no. 40, ill. (color)].in Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800–1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 2007, pp. 163, 251, no. 152, ill. (color and bw).Impressionist & Modern Art: Evening Sale . Sotheby's, London. February 5, 2007, p. 129, under no. 60, fig. 3 (color).
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