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Long before reaching notoriety for his work in the tropical paradise of Tahiti, Paul Gauguin was naught but an impoverished artist, trying to survive in Paris by selling his work to an art market still reeling from the stock market crash of 1882. As such, that was an extremely experimental period not only for Gauguin, but for all of his peers who were deemed as Impressionists, and it is not uncommon to see a certain exchange of styles among them as if they were all trying to come up with a combination that would sell well.
Having been away from France for a number of years, partly due to his marriage to the Danish Mette-Sophie Gad, Gauguin returned in 1885 to a very different art market, and his inability to produce material that would be attractive for art buyers left his finances in dire straits, forcing him to take a number of menial jobs, which cut even more into his time available to produce more paintings. For that reason, Gauguin’s period in Paris between 1885 and 1886 was his least productive one in the matter of paintings, but extremely productive when it came to friction with other painters who were doing commercially well, such as Seurat and Pissarro.
During that period of relatively little productivity, Gauguin would produce paintings such as this oil on canvas, finished in 1885 and now in possession of private collectors. Little in it can be seen and understood as Gauguin’s characteristic style, which would only develop in the years after the Paris offseason. A foundation for that style is present here, be it in the bold choice of colors to represent the autumnal season, be it in the organic, flowing composition. Either way, the artist’s hand can be perceived, albeit diffusely.
Conversely, the brushwork in this piece is quite distinct from his later career, which could even lead to a discussion on whether a starving Gauguin wasn’t allowing for financial considerations to bleed into his work, catering to what would be more popular and thus easier to sell. It would not be too ambitious to state that the period and context in which this landscape was produced is very likely to have been the reason behind Gauguin’s self-imposed exile to the Pacific Isles, looking to escape the mercantilism of European art.
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