29/03/2023
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903),
Blue Trees. Your Turn Will Come, My Beauty! (1888)
Oil on jute sackcloth (❗️)
93 × 73 cm
High auction record: 105.7m USD (2022)
The painting has a very distinctive composition and colouring for its time.
The colours are complementary like orange and purple, and their juxtaposition has an intense effect.
*The perspective is unorthodox: the fields behind the trees almost cover the horizon and tilt like a flat surface out towards the observer.
〰️In particular the tall ornamental blue trees give the picture an alien feel that is typical of Gauguin’s work as a whole
