Paul Gauguin | Harvest: Le Pouldu | L709 | National Gallery, London

Key facts

Full title	Harvest: Le Pouldu
Artist	Paul Gauguin
Artist dates	1848 - 1903
Date made	1890
Medium and support	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	73 × 92.1 cm
Inscription summary	Signed; Dated
Acquisition credit	On loan from Tate: Accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of tax and allocated to the Tate Gallery 1966
Inventory number	L709
Location	Room 43
Image copyright	On loan from Tate: Accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of tax and allocated to the Tate Gallery 1966, © 2000 Tate
Collection	Main Collection

Harvest: Le Pouldu

Paul Gauguin

In 1890 Gauguin was staying at Marie Henry's boarding house in Le Pouldu, Brittany. The headland in this painting is at the western end of the beach, about a mile from the village itself.

Gauguin painted other versions of this landscape, all of which are characterised by the strongly defined forms and flat areas of colour of his Synthetist style. He also used it in a simplified form for the background of his Symbolist work, 'The Loss of Virginity', painted in Paris in the winter of 1890-91 (Norfolk, Virginia, The Chrysler Museum).

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Paul Gauguin, 'Harvest: Le Pouldu', 1890

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