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Still Life in an Interior, Copenhagen, 1885 |
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Artist | Gauguin, Eugène Henri Paul | This picture was almost certainly painted in Denmark before Gauguin returned to Paris and probably represents various members of the Gad family (the family of his wife Mette) in the salon. In later years, Gauguin was to wrote: ‘I too, am familiar with the north of Europe, but the best thing I found there was most certainly not my mother-in-law , but the game that she cooked so admirably’. The two quail (?) in the foreground still-life are perhaps a symbol of his only pleasurable experience in Copenhagen. Before leaving France Gauguin had secured his nomination as agent in Denmark for a firm of Parisian awning-makers (MM. /Dillies &Co). He hoped by this means to earn sufficient money to keep his family and be free to continue painting. But things worked out differently since he could not get enough orders, detested the Danes and was resented as a penniless hanger-on by the Gad family. Accordingly he and Mette decided to separate temporarily in June 1885, Gauguin returning to Paris with his son Cloyis (aged 6). Though they met on two subsequent occasions, this separation was to prove final. |
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Date | 1885 |
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Institution | Private collection | |||
Medium | Oil on panel | |||
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