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Gallery Talk: Discovering Gauguin’s Hidden Landscape

Paul Gauguin, French, Poèmes Barbares, 1896. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906, 1951.49.

Gallery Talk

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

A routine examination in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies revealed a hidden landscape beneath Paul Gauguin’s painting Poèmes Barbares. Discover how conservators and scientists worked together to visualize Gauguin’s forgotten masterpiece.

Our galleries are full of stories—this series of drop-in talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors.

Offered by:
Kate Smith, Conservator of Paintings and Head of the Paintings Lab, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies
Katherine Eremin, Patricia Cornwall Senior Conservation Scientist, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies
Georgina Rayner, Associate Conservation Scientist, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies

Free with museum admission. Gallery talks are limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before each talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museum staff will be on hand to collect tickets.