Les Alyscamps - Gauguin's Paintings

Gauguin's Paintings

For his painting of Les Alyscamps, painted on the same day as Van Gogh's, Gauguin chose a different vantage point from Van Gogh, and excluded any reference to ancient sarcophagi.

  • Paul Gauguin, Les Alyscamps
    1888
    Musee d'Orsay, Paris

  • Paul Gauguin, AllĂ©e des Alyscamps
    1888
    Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo

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