Gustave Fayet

French, 1865 - 1925

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Paul Gauguin, Two Tahitians Gathering Fruit [recto], 1899/1900, traced monotype, printed twice, in brown and ocher on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.41.a

Two Tahitians Gathering Fruit [recto]

Paul Gauguin · 1899/1900 · traced monotype, printed twice, in brown and ocher on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.41.a

Paul Gauguin, Two Tahitians Gathering Fruit [verso], 1899/1900, graphite and blue colored pencil on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.41.b

Two Tahitians Gathering Fruit [verso]

Paul Gauguin · 1899/1900 · graphite and blue colored pencil on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.41.b

We look out onto a landscape with tawny-brown haystacks and trees among a patchwork of moss, lime, mint, and pine-green fields in this stylized, horizontal painting. The scene is painted with mostly flat areas of color. Closest to us, along the bottom edge of the canvas, a woman wearing a white cap and dress and a navy-blue jacket stands among three black and white spotted cows, which form a line facing our left in profile. Several round, tangerine-orange forms surround the head of the cow near the lower right corner. The strip of land on the other side of the cows is divided into alternating rows of spring green and coral pink to our left, and forest green dotted with white to our right. The landscape stretches to the horizon, which comes two-thirds of the way up the composition. Rectangular parcels of land are dotted with four rust-brown haystacks beyond the cows, and trees cluster around several brown roofs in the distance to our right. A band of cream-white clouds lines the horizon beneath the topaz-blue sky above. The artist signed and dated the work in dark paint against the white of the cow in the lower right corner: “P. Gauguin 90.”
Paul Gauguin, Haystacks in Brittany, 1890, oil on canvas, Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman, 1972.9.11

Haystacks in Brittany

Paul Gauguin · 1890 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1972.9.11

Painted in muted lime green, plum purple, buttercup yellow, slate and royal blue, the head and shoulders of a man with peach-colored skin sitting in front of a window looks at us in this stylized, vertical portrait. His body and face are angled to our right but he looks at us from the corners of his eyes, which are grass-green with touches of yellow. One cobalt-blue eyebrow is cocked, and shading in denim blue, butter yellow, and fern green create hollows under both eyes. His flat nose has a broad bridge, and his pale pink lips are closed, the far corner pulled slightly up. His mustache is painted with visible strokes of forest green and his ginger-orange beard is trimmed along his prominent, jutting chin. His short, dark hair is brushed back from his temples and is painted with strokes of pine green, navy blue, and coral orange. His shirt has a wide, golden yellow stripe along the collar above indigo blue, under a grayish-violet purple jacket. The wall over his shoulder, in the upper left corner, is painted vivid lime green with long, vertical brushstrokes. The view through the window beyond his other shoulder is of vegetation and mountains. The portrait is painted with visible brushstrokes throughout, and is especially loose in the background, hair, and jacket. An inscription in dark green script in the upper left reads, “a l'ami Carriere PGauguin.” A second inscription in the lower left is written with dark brown paint: “l'ami Laval PGo.”
Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Carrière, 1888 or 1889, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.20

Self-Portrait Dedicated to Carrière

Paul Gauguin · 1888 or 1889 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1985.64.20

Bibliography

1925

  • Goulinat, J-G. "Les Collections Gustave Fayet." L'Amour de l'art 6 (1925):131-142.

1978

  • Monneret, Sophie, L'Impressionnisme et son Époque 4 vols. Paris, 1978-1981:I:208-209.

1999

  • Kropmanns, Peter. "The Gauguin Exhibition in Weimar," The Burlington Magazine 141 (January 1999):24-31.

2006

  • Gustave Fayet. Exh. cat. Musée Terrus, Elne, 2006.