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accession number:	2009.380
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Seaweed Gatherers, Yport, c. 1889. Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (French, 1851–1934). Black chalk; sheet: 29.2 x 22.7 cm (11 1/2 x 8 15/16 in.); framed: 57.2 x 49.8 x 4.5 cm (22 1/2 x 19 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from Samuel and Paul Josefowitz in tribute to Jane Glaubinger and Heather Lemonedes 2009.380

title:				Seaweed Gatherers, Yport
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series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			c. 1889
creation date earliest:		1885
creation date latest:		1894
current location:		
creditline:			Gift from Samuel and Paul Josefowitz in tribute to Jane Glaubinger and Heather Lemonedes
copyright:			

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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	black chalk
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: Grossvogel 450

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CREATORS

* Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (French, 1851–1934)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 29.2 x 22.7 cm (11 1/2 x 8 15/16 in.); Framed: 57.2 x 49.8 x 4.5 cm (22 1/2 x 19 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	brown wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, lower right, in graphite: Schuffenecker [underlined]; on verso, lower right, in graphite: P
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889
	opening date:   2009-10-04T00:00:00
	<i>Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 18, 2010); Van Gogh Museum, 1070 AJ Amsterdam, Netherlands (February 18-June 6, 2010).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Exposition de peintures et pastels par E. Schuffenecker</em>. Librairie de l'art indépendant, Paris (February 24 - March 16, 1896).

* <em>European Nineteenth-Century Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture</em>. Shepherd Gallery, New York (Winter 1989 - 1990).

* <em>Emile Schuffenecker, 1851-1934</em>. Musee de Pont-Aven (June 29 - September 30, 1996); Musée Departmental Maurice Denis, Le Prieure (October 19, 1996 - January 12, 1997).

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PROVENANCE

	Paul Schuffenecker, Paris
	date: ?-?
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	M. Bruyère, Namur, France
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	M. Jean Willems, Brussels
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	(Shepherd Gallery, New York, NY)
	date: by 1989-1990
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	(Paul Prouté, Paris)
	date: 1990-?
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	Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne, Switzerland, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: after 1990-2009
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2000-
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fun fact:
This drawing is one of numerous depictions of seaweed gatherers that Claude-Emile Schuffenecker created throughout his career in various media.

digital description:
Claude-Emile Schuffenecker worked closely with Paul Gauguin to form Synthetism, a style of art that broke from Impressionism in favor of flat planes of bold color and invented subjects. This drawing, which exists in two versions, is one of Schuffenecker’s most important works from the period. The other interpretation (owned by the Art Institute of Chicago) was featured in an influential 1889 exhibition organized by Gauguin and Schuffenecker at the Café Volpini on the grounds of the Universal Exposition. Both artists saw imagery of seaweed gatherers—a task undertaken by working-class people in rural French coastal towns—as exemplifying the simplicity they sought in their art.

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CITATIONS

	Rochefoucauld, Antoine de la. "Emile Schufffenecker." <em>Le Coeur</em> (July 1894): 3-8.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 5
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	"Émile Schuffenecker." <em>Revue Encyclopédique</em> (1896): 236-37.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 237
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	<em>Exposition de peintures et pastels par E. Schuffenecker</em>. Exh. Cat. Paris: Librairie de l'art indépendant, 1896.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 41
	url:		https://archive.org/details/expositiondepein00schu/mode/2up

	<em>Claude-Emile Schuffenecker: Margin and Image</em>. Exh. Cat. New York: University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1980.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 29
	url:		

	<em>European Nineteenth-Century Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture</em>. Exh. Cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1989.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: no. 53
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	Grossvogel, Jill, and Catherine Puget. <em>Emile Schuffenecker, 1851-1934</em>. Exh. Cat. Pont-Aven: Musée de Pont-Aven, 1996.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 54, no. 29
	url:		

	Grossvogel, Jill-Elyse. <em>Claude-Emile Schuffenecker: Catalogue Raisonné</em>. (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 2000).
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: vol. I, p. 166, no. 4450
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	Lemonedes, Heather, Belinda Thomson, Agnieszka Juszczak, et al. <em>Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2009.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 67, no. 49
	url:		

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IMAGES

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