Why it matters
A stretch of the Brittany coast is transformed into flat fields of colour with strong contours, orange areas with blue shadows. This new style was called Synthetism.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1889.
- The Swedish painter Richard Bergh bought it from Gauguin's Danish wife in 1892.
- It inspired many Swedish artists.
Based on the Wikipedia article Fields by the Sea (CC BY-SA 4.0).
