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Trace the women’s path from the background toward the red fence, then notice how the large bush interrupts the space in front of them.
Gauguin painted these women in a public garden during his 1888 stay with Van Gogh in Arles. He tilts the ground upward and simplifies plants and clothing into broad shapes. The red fence and green bush interrupt the women’s passage, while their dark wraps suggest the cold wind named in the title.
Oil on jute canvas · 73 × 92 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Arlésiennes (Mistral)
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- Oil on jute canvas
- Dimensions
- 73 × 92 cm (28 3/4 × 36 3/16 in.); Framed: 97.5 × 116.6 × 8 cm (38 3/8 × 45 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.