Landscape
Medium
lithograph printed in green and brown on yellow paper
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Alma and Robert D. Milne Fund
Accession Number
2004.39
Tags
About this artwork
Twenty-four-year-old Paul Sérusier met Paul Gauguin in Brittany at the artists' colony in Pont- Aven. Sérusier enthusiastically embraced the older artist's flat, simplified forms and bold colors. He became one of Gauguin's closest disciples, promoting his aesthetic among a group of Parisian artists who became known as the Nabis-the Hebrew word for "prophets"-because they predicted a new era in art. Sérusier was primarily interested in creating decorative surfaces which juxtaposed flat planes of ...