Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin was a Post-Impressionist who pursued radiant color, radical simplification, and symbolic carving and painting across Brittany, Tahiti, and the Marquesas. His experimentation with wood reliefs joined primitivist form to spiritual and erotic themes.
Artworks by Paul Gauguin
in the Vatican Museums
#175
Wooden Relief "Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses"
Gauguin carves a provocative motto—“Be in love, you will be happy”—into a flattened, polychromed relief of entwined figures.
Iconic Symbolist relief merging text, image, and credo.
