# The Large Tree, in Post-Impressionism

Paul Gauguin painted this in 1891, aged 43. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Disgusted with the materialism of European society, Gauguin abandoned his family and career as a stockbroker and departed for Tahiti in 1891. This canvas is among the first paintings he completed on the island.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1891
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Framed: 92.4 x 112.7 x 6.4 cm (36 3/8 x 44 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 74 x 92.8 cm (29 1/8 x 36 9/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.263
- 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.

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