Gauguin's clogs

• Autores: Martin Bailey
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 152, Nº 1289, 2010, págs. 540-543
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Research into the link between Paul Gauguin and the American painter Benjamin Tupper Newman has led to the discovery of a document that sheds light on the decorated wooden clogs that constitute some of Gauguin's more unusual sculptures. Newman's ten-page essay on Breton clogs, or sabots, entitled “Sabots in France,” contains information suggesting that when Gauguin embellished these ready-made objects, he was probably following the custom of the community of artists based in Pont-Aven in France. Three pairs of Gauguin's sabots survive, though only the first—in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.—is reasonable well documented. This pair will be seen in the exhibition “Gauguin: Maker of Myth,” due to be shown at Tate Modern, London, from September 30, 2010, to January 16, 2011.