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Les drames de la mer (Une Descente dans le Maelstrom) (Dramas of the Sea—Descent into the Maelstrom)
1889 (published by Ambroise Vollard, after 1900)
Not on view
Gauguin's explicit interest in Japanese sources for his prints is evident in his illustration of Edgar Allan Poe's story "A Descent into the Maelstrom." This Brittany-inspired seascape is based pictorially on a color woodcut of a seaweed gatherer by Sadahide, a student of Kunisada, and can also be compared to Kunisada's fan print of a poet walking in the rain. In each of these works a tiny protagonist is threatened by dark, menacing forms, but Gauguin inverted the curved shape of the fan to suggest a whirlpool's sloping walls.
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin
- Publisher
- Ambroise Vollard
- Title
- Les drames de la mer (Une Descente dans le Maelstrom) (Dramas of the Sea—Descent into the Maelstrom)
- Date
- 1889 (published by Ambroise Vollard, after 1900)
- Object Type
- Medium
- Zincograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 182 x 277 mm (7 3/16 x 10 7/8 in.) Irregular; Sheet: 298 x 385 mm (11 3/4 x 15 3/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Bruno and Sadie Adriani Collection
- Accession Number
- 1971.28.97