Gauguin Programs
Exhibition Tours
Thursdays, October 15–November 9, December 3–17, January 7, 1:30 p.m.
Sundays, October 11–January 10, 2:30 p.m.
Tours visit the exhibition as well as the adjoining art exploration center. Exhibition ticket required.
Gauguin Tours
Lectures
Belinda Thomson, “The Wolf in the Sheepfold: Gauguin at the Universal Exhibition of 1889”
Sunday, October 4, 2:30 p.m.
Hear about Gauguin’s outspoken response to the 1889 world’s fair in Paris and his organization of an avant-garde, “off-Broadway” exhibition in a fairgrounds café.
Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903). In the Waves, 1889. Oil on fabric; 92 x 72 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Powell Jones 1978.63
Heather Lemonedes, “Immersion in the Waves—Gauguin and the Bather”
Wednesday, October 7, 6:30 p.m.
Discover Gauguin’s versatility and lively imagination by tracing his bather theme, to which he returned repeatedly in his paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, and wood carvings from 1887 through the end of his life.
Miriam Levin, “When the Eiffel Tower Was New”
Wednesday, November 4, 6:30 p.m.
Learn about the cultural context for Gauguin’s work in Paris during the centenary celebration of the French Revolution that gave rise to the Eiffel Tower.
Moyna Stanton, “Technical Aspects of the Volpini Suite”
Wednesday, November 18, 6:30 p.m.
Never heard of zincography? You are not alone. Discover the technical challenges and unique artistic effects Gauguin achieved in his important suite of zinc-plate lithographs.
Caroline Boyle-Turner, “Gauguin’s Brittany: True or False?”
Sunday, January 10, 2:30 p.m.
Founder of the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Boyle-Turner has lived in Brittany for many years. Find out about Gauguin’s relationship to this rural French region and examine his depictions of Breton peasant life.
Family and Community Day
Sunday, October 25, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
Join us for an afternoon of free art workshops and demonstrations celebrating the art on view in Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889. Discover the innovative Art Exploration Gallery in the exhibition, providing a place for all visitors to explore Gauguin’s artistic processes and to exercise their own creativity in two hands-on art activities.
Free drop-in art activities all afternoon in the lower level education classrooms
+ Make a Paper Breton Hat
+ Pass the Pastels Please!
Stamping and sculpting demonstrations in the art exploration gallery
+ Exhibition ticket required
2:00-2:30 Getting to Know Gauguin family tour
+ Exhibition ticket required
2:30-3:30 Gauguin: Paris, 1889 exhibition tour
+ Exhibition ticket required
Paul Gauguin. Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven, 1888. Oil on canvas; 73 x 92.7 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon 1983.1.19. Image courtesy the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Viva! & Gala Performances:
The Artist as Itinerant
As Gauguin journeyed to “primitive” islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific to escape European conventions, two concerts explore the theme of the artist as itinerant.
Puerto Plata: Music of the Dominican Republic
Tuesday, October 6, 7:30 p.m.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
$34, CMA members $33
An heir to an unbroken “native son” tradition, Puerto Plata offers a taste of the living music of the great soneros, what Gauguin may have heard when he first visited the islands of the Caribbean.
Evan Ziporyn & Gamelan Galak Tika
Friday, January 8, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
$34, CMA members $33
Described by the New York Times as “an exuberant blast of metal fireworks,” Ziporyn’s Gamelan Galak Tika performs traditional Balinese music and dance, and new works by Balinese and American composers.
Holiday Film Festival: Gauguin on Film
Three film versions of the life of Paul Gauguin
$8, CMA members, seniors 65 & over, students $6
Gauguin the Savage
Saturday, December 26, 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, December 29, 1:30 p.m.
USA, 1980, color, 125 min.
Directed by Fielder Cook, with the late David Carradine and Lynn Redgrave, this film portrays the French painter Gauguin, who abandons his wife and children in Europe for a life of artistic freedom in Tahiti.
Wolf at the Door
Sunday, December 27, 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 30, 1:30 p.m.
Denmark/France, 1986, color, in English, 100 min.
Directed by Henning Carlsen, with Donald Sutherland and Max von Sydow, this film dramatizes Gauguin’s return to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti, and his difficulty in selling paintings to finance the trip back to his island paradise.
The Moon and Sixpence
Thursday, December 31, 1:30 p.m.
USA, 1942, b&w, color, 89 min.
Directed by Albert Lewin, with George Sanders and Herbert Marshall, this film version of a Somerset Maugham novel inspired by the life of Gauguin follows a self-centered London stockbroker who leaves his wife and family to pursue a painting career in Paris and then Tahiti.
TGIF (Thank Gauguin It’s Friday)
Friday Nights
5:30–9:00 p.m.
Put the work week behind you and start your evening at the museum three special Fridays with drinks, food, music, and more in a festive happy-hour that Gauguin would have loved.
Tickets
$15, CMA members $10.
Ticket includes light snacks, music by DJ Axel Flei, and ticket to the exhibition. Cash bar with a different featured beverage each night.
To reserve tickets call 888-CMA-0033 or 216-421-7350. Order tickets online from the
box office.
October 23
Vinology
Featured at the bar tonight: A selection of French wines from Bordeaux to Burgundy.
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October 30
The Green Pour
Featured at the bar tonight: From the slow pour to the sugar cube and slotted spoon, Absinthe is an experience not to be forgotten.
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November 6
Bubbly
Featured at the bar tonight: French champagnes on a not-so ordinary Friday evening.
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After Hours
November 13
9:00 p.m.–1:00 a.m.
Keep the Friday celebrations going! Enjoy live performances by Eats Tapes & Marina Rosenfeld’s Sheer Frost Orchestra, and a café exhibition of work by artists from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Cash bars and refreshments. Tickets $10.
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Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889 was organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Van Gogh Museum. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. The exhibition is made possible through major support provided by the Malcolm E. Kenney Special Exhibitions Endowment Fund. The supporting corporate sponsor of the exhibition is KeyBank. Additional support has been provided by The Painting and Drawing Society of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this exhibition with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence, and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. Online media sponsor cleveland.com.
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