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.
Jacquard-woven both sides in soft, durable yarn; insert included.
