The Call
1902
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 131.3 × 89.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-109024
Painted on a remote island in Polynesia a year before the artist's death, The Call belongs to a series of late works that explore the mysteries of life and death. Two women stand with bare feet, as if on sacred ground. One woman gestures to someone outside the picture, perhaps responding to a "call" from fate or destiny. Gauguin realized his ambition of painting from memory and the imagination through such mysterious, dreamlike images.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1943.392
Registry history
- 1902 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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