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Émile Bernard

Caricature of Paul Gauguin

1889
watercolor and black ink on paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Émile Bernard worked closely with Paul Gauguin in the village of Pont-Aven during the late 1880s, adopting a new style that emphasized imagination rather than observed reality. This caricatural portrait dates to their most intense period of collaboration, and shows Gauguin as the leader of a new school of painting, seated regally and holding a walking stick that resembles a scepter.

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