Artist: Paul Gauguin
מוּזֵיאוֹן: Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany)
טֶכנִיקָה: Oil On Canvas
Cavaliers sur la plage, the third painting that Osthaus acquired from a group of late works of the artist, who had died in 1903, sold by Ambroise Vollard in Paris, shows a beach scene that may well have taken place on Hiva-Oa, a Marquesas Island near Tahiti. The artist, already seriously ill, had moved there in 1901. Two riders galloping from the left, in hooded jackets, without or with faces hidden behind masks, cross paths with a group of riders obviously heading towards the sea visible in the background. The painting has a fascinating coloring, which Gauguin masterly constructed on the pink-purple of the beach dominating the composition. Gauguin had already produced such beach scenes of occasionally unnatural colors during his time in Normandy and Brittany (see The Kelp Gatherers). Apart from an obvious reference to Edgar Degas in the construction of the image, it articulates a tangible longing, a romantically inflected view of the broad, unending sea. References also exist to Albrecht Dürer
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