Still Life with Profile of Laval  1886

Signed and dated L.L.: P. Gauguin 86 [br] Gallery label: Gauguin painted this unusual image in Paris in late 1886, after his first visit to Pont-Aven, where he befriended the artist Charles Laval. Laval's profile, abruptly cut on the right, reflects Gauguin's admiration for the off center, cropped compositions of Edgar Degas. The parallel brush strokes and outlined form...