
Post-Impressionism: c. 1886-1904

Gauguin’s nude is suspended between dreams and reality— just like his imperialistic vision of Tahiti.

Cézanne’s lifelong love affair with the landscape of Aix-en-Provence reaches its peak in his mountain images.
Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire

A small brown smudge in the background of this awkward painting hints at Cézanne’s ingenuity.
Paul Cézanne, Turning Road at Montgeroult

All conventions of perspective are called into question in Cézanne’s meditation on the nature of experience.
Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Plaster Cupid

By the nineteenth century, the still life was an outmoded and undervalued subject—but Cezanne brought it back.
Paul Cézanne, The Basket of Apples

This bizarre, asymmetrical figure begs an important question: was Cezanne even a good painter?
Paul Cézanne, The Bather

Never quite at home with the Impressionists in Paris, Cezanne was a perpetual misfit with a unique vision.
An introduction to the painting of Paul ...

Gauguin took every opportunity to describe this enigmatic painting with melodramatic flourish.
Paul Gauguin, Where do we come from? ...

Gauguin’s ceramic Goddess of Death survives to this day thanks to the negligence of his flaky friend.
Paul Gauguin, Oviri

Featuring a frightened, nude fourteen-year-old, this painting shows the dark side of Gauguin’s Tahitian fixation.
Paul Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching

Though the artist was obsessed with painting a starry sky en plein air, it is likely this was painted indoors.
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night

An optimistic message to his doctors, or a farewell letter to his utopian artistic dream? We’re all ears.
Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear

Van Gogh’s contribution to a bromantic self-portrait exchange was radical in both its choice and use of color.