Eve bretonne II
The story
A nude woman crouches with her arms wrapped around herself. Gauguin first sketched the pose from a Peruvian mummy he saw in a Paris museum and kept returning to it for years. He painted this version in 1889 in the Breton village of Le Pouldu.
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin
- Year
- 1889
- Period
- Impressionist
- Where it lives
- The Athenaeum
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
