EVENT CANCELLED Richard R. Brettell | Gauguin’s Search for His Father: Delacroix as Gauguin’s Most Important Source

This event has been cancelled due to the speaker’s illness and will not be rescheduled. We deeply regret any inconvenience.

Paul Gauguin was only 1 when his father died and 15 when Eugène Delacroix died—and, in many ways, the future artist grew up without a father, artistic or actual. Like Paul Cezanne, he tried to place Camille Pissarro in both roles. But, as Gauguin aged in Tahiti and the Marquesas, Delacroix began to assume that role in his work. This talk will examine the myriad ways in which Gauguin channeled Delacroix—both his life and his work—to create a modernism with deep psychological and artistic roots.

Richard R. Brettell, Ph.D., is founding director of The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, and the Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair and co-Director, CISM (Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Museums), at the University of Texas at Dallas.

The Agnes Lynch Anderson and Roger Anderson Lecture

$10; $5 MIA members, free to Paintings Affinity Group members. To register, call (612) 870-6323 or reserve online.