Vintage 1960 Gauguin "The Vision After the Sermon - Jacob Wrestling with the Angel" Art Print

Gauguin's The Vision After the Sermon - Jacob Wrestling with the Angel Art Print

Print from a rare 1960 Metropolitan Seminars in Art volume.

12.5" x 9.5" unframed

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia.

An excerpt from Abstract Art and Theosophy by Dr. Charles Cramer and Dr. Kim Grant:

"In an 1892 essay, the art critic Albert Aurier decried the futility of scientific reasoning in the face of the deeper mysteries of life: Aurier saw hope for the future in a new art movement called Symbolism, led by Paul Gauguin. Gauguin’s work demonstrates his rejection of science and modernity most obviously in its turn away from the modern, urban subjects preferred by the Impressionists in favor of rural and religious subject-matter. His Vision after the Sermon, which Aurier described as the first masterpiece of the new movement, shows a group of Breton peasant women leaving church and having a collective vision of the Biblical patriarch Jacob wrestling an angel (Genesis 32:22-32)."