Seaweed Gatherers, Yport
Medium
black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 29.2 × 22.7 cm · framed: 57.2 × 49.8 × 4.5 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift from Samuel and Paul Josefowitz in tribute to Jane Glaubinger and Heather Lemonedes
Accession Number
2009.380
Tags
About this artwork
Claude-Emile Schuffenecker worked closely with Paul Gauguin to form Synthetism, a style of art that broke from Impressionism in favor of flat planes of bold color and invented subjects. This drawing, which exists in two versions, is one of Schuffenecker’s most important works from the period. The other interpretation (owned by the Art Institute of Chicago) was featured in an influential 1889 exhibition organized by Gauguin and Schuffenecker at the Café Volpini on the grounds of the Universal Exp...