\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 Gauguin wrote the title of this work on the canvas, which was painted during one of the artistÆs stays at Pont-Aven, in Brit
tany. The work was bought by Paul Degas.\par
Influences of Oriental and primitive art are evident in the composition, which has no logical spatial structure, as well as in the insertion of a ceramic figure resembling an idol in the background.
