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Published ReferencesDES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. and b/w ill. p.80
Piero Guccione is known as a master of the medium of pastel, and his meditational still life images have often been compared to those of Giorgio Morandi.... Gucionne's studies of dying hibiscus flowers come out of the artistic tradition of the symbol-filled vanitas still life, in which fading fllowers remind the viewer of mortality.
Source: DMAC "Hand & Eye, Drawing from the Permanent Collection", May 9 - September 7, 2008, p.4
Published ReferencesDES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. and b/w ill. p.80
DimensionsSheet: 27 9/16 × 39 1/4 in. (70 × 99.7 cm)
Image: 26 13/16 × 38 9/16 in. (68.1 × 97.9 cm)
Image: 26 13/16 × 38 9/16 in. (68.1 × 97.9 cm)
Accession Number 1980.26
Classificationswork on paper
Portfolio/Series"Life and Death of the Hibiscus"
ProvenanceArtist. (Odyssia Gallery, New York); Des Moines Art Center [purchased from the previous, 1980]
Paul Gauguin
1892, reworked ca. 1894
