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Claude-Emile Schuffenecker

Study for "Seaweed Gatherers, Yport"

c. 1888
black chalk on laid paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Claude-Emile Schuffenecker met Paul Gauguin while the two were working at the same Parisian stockbrokerage. They both abandoned their jobs to become professional artists following a market crash in 1882.

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