This lecture takes place at The Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike St, Cincinnati, OH 45202.
Please join us at the reception for Dr. Brettell on Friday, April 21 (the night before the lecture) at The Barn!
"The Recovery of Paradise"
A Lecture by Richard R. Brettell, Foundation Director of the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History, about the following painting:
Paul Gauguin
"Rupe Rupe"
1899
Pushkin Museum of Art, Moscow
In 1897 and 1898, Gauguin made a series of 10 paintings designed to be a collective embodiment of the ideas contained in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The year after they were sent to Paris for exhibition at the Durand-Ruel Gallery, he began the creation of second series of paintings that were never shown together in his lifetime and that embody Milton's shorter and more problemmatic text, Paradise Regained. The crowning picture of the latter series, Rupe Rupe (PLEASURE) is one of his masterpieces, little known in Europe and America because it has been in Moscow for more than 100 years and has only been loaned to the west on one occasion. The lecture will consider Rupe Rupe in the context of these paintings, located in a mythical Tahiti, and as part of Gauguin's late obsession with religion and particularly with Christianity, especially as these ideas were codified in his contemporary unpublished text, L'Esprit Modern et le Catholicisme, the manuscript of which is in the St. Louis Museum of Art.
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