Haystacks In Brittany by Paul Gauguin Material:400g Cotton Canvas almost faded quality that speaks

almost faded quality that speaks to its age and origin

using tonal contrast to articulate depth and silence

Seven birds are arranged against a rich red ground in a manner that echoes Kōrin's flattened

irreversible mark that Matisse described as 'drawing with scissors

It brings a scholarly

Haystacks In Brittany by Paul Gauguin Material:400g Cotton Canvas almost faded quality that speaksHaystacks In Brittany belongs to Gauguin's Pre Tahitian work, painted during his time in the French countryside before his departure for the South Pacific. The haystacks anchor the composition with solid, rounded mass while the surrounding fields are handled in broad, unblended strokes of ochre and green. There is a flatness to the colour a move away from Impressionist shimmer toward the bold, simplified forms that would define his later work. The sky