Gauguin, Paul - Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) (1888) - Matte Canvas, Framed

Name: Gauguin, Paul - Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) (1888) - Matte Canvas, Framed
Brand: Printify
SKU: 20534437656090538063
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Framed Matte Canvas: A Timeless Legacy, Elegantly Bordered

The Masterpieces Collection serves as a bridge to cultural continuity, bringing the depth of art history into the modern sanctuary of your home. By choosing a framed presentation, you elevate these signals of human brilliance from a simple accent to a definitive focal point. This framed matte canvas provides a sophisticated, gallery-ready aesthetic that anchors your space in intentionality and grace.

Eleanor, we understand that finding the perfect frame can often be an overwhelming post-purchase hurdle—one that delays the joy of actually hanging your art. We’ve pre-emptively solved this by pairing our archival-grade canvas with a sustainably sourced pinewood frame. It arrives finished and ready to grace your walls, ensuring that the transition from our studio to your home is effortless and immediately rewarding.

Premium Composition: A cotton and polyester composite canvas featuring a specialized proprietary coating that ensures vibrant, eye-catching detail and long-lasting color integrity.
Sustainably Sourced: Both the pinewood frame and the internal radial pine stretcher bars are FSC-certified from renewable forests, honoring a commitment to mindful stewardship.
Safety and Clarity: Printed with UL-certified Greenguard Gold latex inks, our canvases are non-hazardous, non-toxic, and non-flammable, providing a vivid resonance that is safe for every room in your home.
Ready to Hang: Each piece comes with sawtooth hanging hardware already attached, ensuring a seamless installation.
Artisan Precision: Our frames are available in four colors to complement your unique decor. Due to the specialized production process, please allow for a slight size deviation tolerance of +/- 1/8" (3.2mm).

Care Instructions

Maintenance is intentionally straightforward to ensure your artwork remains a pristine fixture in your home. If the canvas or frame gathers dust over time, simply wipe it off gently with a clean, damp cloth.

The Story

The Death of the Eyeball

By 1888, the Parisian art scene was a suffocating machine of light and logic. Gauguin traveled to Brittany to find meaning in art, and ended up finding a living ghost. In the rugged, salt-sprayed landscape of Pont-Aven, he found a people who still believed in the invisible, and Gauguin painted their collective imagination, his way. Impressionism had become too scientific, obsessed with how light hits a haystack. Gauguin wanted to know how a soul hits a canvas instead.

Vision of the Sermon is the moment the umbilical cord to objective reality finally snapped for Gauguin. The scene is split by a brutal, diagonal tree trunk borrowed straight from Japanese woodblock prints. On one side, you have the Breton women in their stiff white caps and black wool. On the other, a biblical wrestling match between Jacob and an angel, in the background. The ground beneath them isn't grass. It’s a flat, screaming field of vermilion red.

This is a mindscape, not a landscape. Gauguin is painting the collective hallucination of a congregation after a particularly fire-and-brimstone sermon. The red isn't a color, it’s the heat of belief. When he tried to give this masterpiece to the local church in Nizon, the priest actually turned him away. The church couldn't handle a vision that didn't follow the representational rules for shadows and dirt. Gauguin didn't care. He had killed the observation of nature to make room for the imagination.

References

Gauguin, Paul. Letters to Nanette. Edited by Amy S. Wyckoff. Museum of Modern Art.

Thomson, Belinda. Gauguin. Thames & Hudson. 1987.

Silverman, Debora. Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2000.

Bretell, Richard. The Art of Paul Gauguin. National Gallery of Art. 1988.

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Your investment is protected. Material or print defects are replaced or fully refunded — no friction, no negotiation. If the work doesn't resonate aesthetically within 5 days of receipt, reach out and we'll make it right.

One note worth reading before you order: because every piece is produced on demand, we're unable to accommodate returns for incorrect size selections. Consult the product specs before you commit — they're there to make sure what arrives is exactly what you envisioned.