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Study for "Seaweed Gatherers, Yport"

Study for "Seaweed Gatherers, Yport"

c. 1888
(French, 1851–1934)
France, 19th century
black chalk on laid paper
Sheet: 47.6 x 31.3 cm (18 3/4 x 12 5/16 in.)
Elizabeth Carroll Shearer Fund 2020.289
Catalogue raisonné: Grossvogel 447
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Claude-Emile Schuffenecker met Paul Gauguin while the two were working at the same Parisian stockbrokerage. They both abandoned their jobs to become professional artists following a market crash in 1882.

Description

Claude-Emile Schuffenecker worked closely with Paul Gauguin to form Synthetism, a style of art that broke from Impressionism in favor of flat planes of bold color and invented subjects. This drawing is a study for one of Schuffenecker’s most important works, Seaweed Gatherers, Yport, which exists in two versions, one of which belongs to the Cleveland Museum of Art. The other version of the drawing (owned by the Art Institute of Chicago) was featured in an influential 1889 exhibition organized by Gauguin and Schuffenecker at the Café Volpini on the grounds of the Universal Exposition. Both artists saw imagery of seaweed gatherers—a task undertaken by working class people in rural French coastal towns—as exemplifying the simplicity they sought in their art.
  • 1934-?
    Jeanne Schuffenecker, Paris
    ?-?
    Jacques Fouquet, Paris
    ?-2020
    Private Collection, New York
    2020
    (Abbatoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2020-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Claude-Emile Schuffenecker: Margin and Image. Exh. Cat. New York: University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1980. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 74, no. 38
    Grossvogel, Jill-Elyse. Claude-Emile Schuffenecker: Catalogue Raisonné. (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 2000). Mentioned and reproduced: vol. I, p. 165, no. 447
  • Claude-Emile Schuffenecker: Margin and Image. University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton (November 22 – December 22, 1980); Hammer Galleries, New York (January 8 - 24, 1981).
  • {{cite web|title=Study for "Seaweed Gatherers, Yport"|url=false|author=Claude-Emile Schuffenecker|year=c. 1888|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.289