Painting: Farm in Brittany 2
Artist: Paul Gauguin
Style: Post-Impressionism
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 28 1/2 x 35 5/8 in
Year: 1894
Bequest of Margaret Seligman Lewisohn, in memory of her husband, Sam A.Lewisohn, 1954 54.143.2
After returning to Paris from his first trip to Tahiti, Gauguin spent the summer and fall of 1894 painting in the north of France. “I love Brittany,” he said. “I find here the savage and the primitive. When my boots clang on this granite earth, I hear the dull, muffled tone that I am seeking in painting.”