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Marine avec vache, ou Au dessus du gouffre by Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin · 1888

Marine avec vache, ou Au dessus du gouffre

The story

A red cow stands on a jutting cliff above a churning Breton sea. Gauguin painted this in 1888 on his second stay in Pont-Aven, and hidden in the contour of the rocks he tucked the profile of a man — easy to miss the first time.

Artist
Paul Gauguin
Year
1888
Rights
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