Floor plan

East wing: The Nineteenth CenturyPost-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

A work made of oil on canvas.
Painting of a performance inside a circus ring. A man wearing a suit holds a whip in his hand and looks towards a woman with red hair riding a gray horse and wearing a green dress. Audience members wearing suits and top hats watch from red and white benches on the side.
Painting of four women with blue shawls walking near red fence.
Landscape with Wheelbarrow, by Vincent van Gogh, 1883
Impressionist sea landscape, tan houses, blue ocean, distant mountains.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat, 1887–88

The works in this room are listed below.

Works in this room

Artists who kept Impressionism's colour but pushed towards structure, symbol and feeling.

Section 1, north wall

  1. A work made of oil on canvas.
    The Vase of TulipsPaul Cézanne, c. 1890Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. Painting of a performance inside a circus ring. A man wearing a suit holds a whip in his hand and looks towards a woman with red hair riding a gray horse and wearing a green dress. Audience members wearing suits and top hats watch from red and white benches on the side.
    Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando)Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1887–88Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. Painting of four women with blue shawls walking near red fence.
    Arlésiennes (Mistral)Paul Gauguin, 1888Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Section 1, south wall

  1. Landscape with Wheelbarrow, by Vincent van Gogh, 1883
    Landscape with WheelbarrowVincent van Gogh, 1883Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  2. Impressionist sea landscape, tan houses, blue ocean, distant mountains.
    The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'EstaquePaul Cézanne, c. 1885Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat, 1887–88
    Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)Georges Seurat, 1887–88Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Section 2, south wall

  1. Painting, heavy in tones of blue-green and burnt orange, depicting a bar scene at night. The men wear top hats and many are bearded; the women are dressed in voluminous gowns and decorative hats. Five people converse in the center of the composition and a woman with a green face dominates the right foreground.
    At the Moulin RougeHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892–95Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. A work made of pastel and graphite on cream wove paper.
    At the Circus: Trained Pony and BaboonHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. Irises, by Vincent van Gogh, 1890
    IrisesVincent van Gogh, 1890Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  4. A work made of graphite on cream laid paper (pieced).
    Bather With Outstretched Arms (recto); Study of a Tree (verso)Paul Cézanne, 1874/77Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Section 2, north wall

  1. At the Circus: The Spanish Walk (Au Cirque: Le Pas espagnol), by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899
    At the Circus: The Spanish Walk (Au Cirque: Le Pas espagnol)Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean), by Georges Seurat, 1882–83
    Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean)Georges Seurat, 1882–83Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  3. Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-Rémy, by Vincent van Gogh, 1889
    Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-RémyVincent van Gogh, 1889Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  4. Tahitian Faces (Frontal View and Profiles), by Paul Gauguin, ca. 1899
    Tahitian Faces (Frontal View and Profiles)Paul Gauguin, ca. 1899Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Section 3, north wall

  1. Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in a Red Dress, by Paul Cézanne, 1888–90
    Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in a Red DressPaul Cézanne, 1888–90Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. Pastel drawing of two figures in a sailboat, bright multi-colored clouds.
    Flower CloudsOdilon Redon, c. 1903Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago