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Designed by MFA designer Evan Baumeister, this print draws inspiration from Jaylen Brown’s soaring moves and the Museum’s Art of the Americas galleries.
Between 1886 and 1891 Gauguin spent extended periods in the rural community of Pont-Aven, Brittany, in northwestern France. There he painted scenes of everyday life invested with symbolic, even religious, significance. Here two Breton peasants sit in the shade. The right-hand figure seems at first to be praying, but in fact she’s eating—holding a piece of fruit, perhaps, in her left hand and a knife in her right. The painting demonstrates a shift in Gauguin’s style away from the brushy, Impressionistic manner of his early career towards the broad, flat expanses of color that characterize his Tahitian pictures.