Wooden Relief "Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses"

This carved relief, with its deliberately naïve contours and inscribed French motto, condenses Gauguin’s Symbolist credo into wood. Flattened forms, shallow depth, and traces of color create a talismanic image that is part sculpture, part manifesto. It bridges his experiments in Brittany and his search for ‘primitive’ sincerity.