Painted in 1890 at Le Pouldu in Brittany, shortly before Paul Gauguin's first voyage to Tahiti, "Woman with a Cat" depicts a seated female nude rendered with the bold contours and flattened planes of color that define his Synthetist style. The painting belongs to a small group of intimate studio studies from his final months in France, made as he searched for subjects beyond Impressionism and modern Paris — a search that would soon lead him to the South Pacific. Its warm palette and simplified forms anticipate the style he would carry into his Tahitian work.
Printed edge to edge on a soft, durable woven area rug with a comfortable, non-slip feel.
