This hall contains paintings by one of the main figures of Post-Impressionism – Paul Gauguin (1848–1903). At the Window (1882), the earliest canvas in the collection, is still reminiscent of the artist’s early enthusiasm for Impressionism, which he can already be seen moving away from in the still life Rowan Bouquet (1884).
The later works – Conversation (1891), Pastorales Tahitiennes (1892), Sacred Spring (1894) and others – are a fine introduction to the “Tahitian” period in the artist's career.
Gauguin himself termed his flat manner of painting in which impressions of reality are transformed by the imagination Syntheticism or Symbolism.
Paintings by Gauguin can also be seen in Hall 412.
