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The painting dates back to two months when Paul Gauguin lived and worked with Vincent van Gogh in the Yellow House in Arles, France, during which time Gauguin painted 17 oil paintings. Among them, this one is the most mysterious. Its background is the park opposite the house. Gauguin used sketchbooks to plan the main figures, their headdress details, their groupings, as well as fountains, benches and cone-shaped bushes wrapped in frost, all of which he could observe from his bedroom window. The figure on the left looks a lot like Jinu, the proprietor of a local cafe. She put her shawl over her mouth to protect herself from the cold winds known in the region as “Mistral” (northwesterly). Combined with her blank eyes, the gesture suggests a repressed sadness that reinforces the sensory experience that she is leading a solemn funeral procession.
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73 × 92 cm
Post-Impressionism
Art Institute of Chicago
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