Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)
In the Waves (Dans les Vagues)
1889
Paul Gauguin's 'In the Waves' ('Dans les Vagues', 1889) was painted in Pouldu, Brittany, before his first departure for Polynesia. A red-haired woman plunges into surging ocean water, her outlined body and intense orange-green palette characteristic of Gauguin's Synthetist-Symbolist idiom developed with the Pont-Aven school. It is a cornerstone of the Cleveland Museum of Art's Gauguin holdings.
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