# In the Waves (Dans les Vagues), in Post-Impressionism

Paul Gauguin painted this in 1889, aged 41. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Painted at Pont-Aven in northwest France, this depiction of a nude figure throwing herself into the sea suggests a metaphor for a modern European woman forsaking civilization and abandoning herself to her natural, primitive instincts.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1889
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Framed: 123.8 x 106 x 7 cm (48 3/4 x 41 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 92.5 x 72.4 cm (36 7/16 x 28 1/2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.63
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Paul Gauguin](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/paul-gauguin), French, 1848–1903

Gauguin worked as a Paris stockbroker and collected the Impressionists before taking up painting full time in the 1880s, showing in the last five Impressionist exhibitions.

10 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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