Floor plan

East wing: The Nineteenth CenturyPost-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Still-Life with a Watermelon and Pomegranates, by Paul Cézanne, 1900–1906
View of a village surrounded by hills, fields, and trees, shown from a vantage point above the scene. Subtly rolling hills recede into a bluish gray-ish sky punctuated by white clouds. Thick brushstrokes built up atop each other are visible throughout.
The Card Players, by Paul Cézanne, 1890–92
A work made of oil on vellum.
Painted in muted lime green, plum purple, buttercup yellow, slate and royal blue, the head and shoulders of a man with peach-colored skin sitting in front of a window looks at us in this stylized, vertical portrait. His body and face are angled to our right but he looks at us from the corners of his eyes, which are grass-green with touches of yellow. One cobalt-blue eyebrow is cocked, and shading in denim blue, butter yellow, and fern green create hollows under both eyes. His flat nose has a broad bridge, and his pale pink lips are closed, the far corner pulled slightly up. His mustache is painted with visible strokes of forest green and his ginger-orange beard is trimmed along his prominent, jutting chin. His short, dark hair is brushed back from his temples and is painted with strokes of pine green, navy blue, and coral orange. His shirt has a wide, golden yellow stripe along the collar above indigo blue, under a grayish-violet purple jacket. The wall over his shoulder, in the upper left corner, is painted vivid lime green with long, vertical brushstrokes. The view through the window beyond his other shoulder is of vegetation and mountains. The portrait is painted with visible brushstrokes throughout, and is especially loose in the background, hair, and jacket. An inscription in dark green script in the upper left reads, “a l'ami Carriere PGauguin.” A second inscription in the lower left is written with dark brown paint: “l'ami Laval PGo.”
The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy), by Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Corridor in the Asylum, by Vincent van Gogh, September 1889
A scene in brown and green tones of people dancing indoors. In the foreground, three women stand near boothed tables while a man sits.

The works in this room are listed below.

Works in this room

Artists who kept Impressionism's colour but pushed towards structure, symbol and feeling.

Section 1, north wall

  1. Still-Life with a Watermelon and Pomegranates, by Paul Cézanne, 1900–1906
    Still-Life with a Watermelon and PomegranatesPaul Cézanne, 1900–1906Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. View of a village surrounded by hills, fields, and trees, shown from a vantage point above the scene. Subtly rolling hills recede into a bluish gray-ish sky punctuated by white clouds. Thick brushstrokes built up atop each other are visible throughout.
    Auvers, Panoramic ViewPaul Cézanne, 1873–75Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. The Card Players, by Paul Cézanne, 1890–92
    The Card PlayersPaul Cézanne, 1890–92Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  4. A work made of oil on vellum.
    At the Circus: The Bareback Rider (Au Cirque: Écuyère)Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1888Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Section 1, south wall

  1. Painted in muted lime green, plum purple, buttercup yellow, slate and royal blue, the head and shoulders of a man with peach-colored skin sitting in front of a window looks at us in this stylized, vertical portrait. His body and face are angled to our right but he looks at us from the corners of his eyes, which are grass-green with touches of yellow. One cobalt-blue eyebrow is cocked, and shading in denim blue, butter yellow, and fern green create hollows under both eyes. His flat nose has a broad bridge, and his pale pink lips are closed, the far corner pulled slightly up. His mustache is painted with visible strokes of forest green and his ginger-orange beard is trimmed along his prominent, jutting chin. His short, dark hair is brushed back from his temples and is painted with strokes of pine green, navy blue, and coral orange. His shirt has a wide, golden yellow stripe along the collar above indigo blue, under a grayish-violet purple jacket. The wall over his shoulder, in the upper left corner, is painted vivid lime green with long, vertical brushstrokes. The view through the window beyond his other shoulder is of vegetation and mountains. The portrait is painted with visible brushstrokes throughout, and is especially loose in the background, hair, and jacket. An inscription in dark green script in the upper left reads, “a l'ami Carriere PGauguin.” A second inscription in the lower left is written with dark brown paint: “l'ami Laval PGo.”
    Self-Portrait Dedicated to CarrièrePaul Gauguin, 1888 or 1889Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
  2. The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy), by Vincent van Gogh, 1889
    The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy)Vincent van Gogh, 1889Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  3. Corridor in the Asylum, by Vincent van Gogh, September 1889
    Corridor in the AsylumVincent van Gogh, September 1889Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  4. A scene in brown and green tones of people dancing indoors. In the foreground, three women stand near boothed tables while a man sits.
    Moulin de la GaletteHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1889Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Section 2, south wall

  1. A work made of black conté crayon, on white laid paper, laid down on cream board.
    Trees (study for La Grande Jatte)Georges Seurat, 1884Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. Painting in short strokes of pale blue, green, white, yellow, and pink, of a fisherman in one of two small boats on a river, a tree-lined bank and a bridge in the background.
    Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières)Vincent van Gogh, 1887Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. Head of a Tahitian Woman, by Paul Gauguin, 1891
    Head of a Tahitian WomanPaul Gauguin, 1891Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  4. Impressionist sea landscape, tan houses, blue ocean, distant mountains.
    The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'EstaquePaul Cézanne, c. 1885Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Section 2, north wall

  1. Painting of a red-haired, bearded man with light skin, painted in short brushstrokes and multicolored dots. The background is likewise a mass of small, closely spaced colored dots, these in green, blue, and red-orange.
    Self-PortraitVincent van Gogh, 1887Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin, 1891
    Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)Paul Gauguin, 1891Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Section 3, north wall

  1. Painting, heavy in tones of blue-green and burnt orange, depicting a bar scene at night. The men wear top hats and many are bearded; the women are dressed in voluminous gowns and decorative hats. Five people converse in the center of the composition and a woman with a green face dominates the right foreground.
    At the Moulin RougeHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892–95Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. Mount Sainte-Victoire, by Paul Cézanne, c. 1904
    Mount Sainte-VictoirePaul Cézanne, c. 1904Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art