Who Painted What? The Post-Impressionists Quiz

Answer: Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) painted a set of five paintings entitled "The Card Players" during the 1890s. The first two show three players sitting at a table, being watched by one or two observers, and were painted between 1890 and 1892. The final three depict just two figures, namely two card players sitting opposite each other at a small table.

The one which is generally dated to 1892-95 can be seen in the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Three of the others are in other public galleries in Philadelphia, New York and Paris, while the last was in 2011 purchased by the Royal Family of Qatar.

Answer: Paul Cézanne

Towards the end of his life, Cézanne painted a number of paintings of groups of people bathing. The one on which he worked between 1898 and 1905 is generally regarded as one of his finest works, and is owned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the United States.

It depicts a group of a dozen or so nude female bathers, depicted in an abstract fashion that clearly influenced later artists such as Pablo Picasso, whose earliest works overlapped with Cezanne's final ones.

Answer: Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) produced a number of "sunflower" paintings in 1888 and 1889. These are normally divided into four "initial versions" dating from August 1888, which represent vases containing three, five, twelve and fifteen flowers - at least according to their titles. There are also three "repetitions" from January 1889, which replicate the images of the twelve and fifteen flower versions.

The first of the "fifteen sunflowers" versions is in the collection of the UK's National Gallery in London. Others of the series can be seen in Munich, Sompo (Japan), Amsterdam and Philadelphia. The original three-flower version is in a private collection, while the five-flower painting was destroyed during an American air raid on Japan in 1945.

Answer: Vincent van Gogh

Van Gogh produced three paintings to which he gave the title "A Wheatfield with Cypresses", all in 1889. At the time he was a voluntary patient at the mental asylum in Saint-Rémy, and the pictures represent a view from the asylum towards the Alpilles Mountains. Of the three paintings, one is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and another by London's National Gallery.

The third is in a private collection.

Answer: Vincent van Gogh

Van Gogh's 1889 work "The Starry Night" is one of his most celebrated paintings and was painted during the same period as the "Wheatfield with Cypresses" pictures. Indeed, the cypress tree that dominates the left of the painting is very similar in form to that shown in the wheatfield works. "The Starry Night" depicts a swirling dark blue sky, dotted with gleaming yellow stars and a childlike crescent moon.

The painting can be seen in New York at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Answer: Paul Gauguin

Between 1890 and his death in 1903, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) spent much of his time living on the Pacific Island of Tahiti, part of French Polynesia. "Woman with a Flower" was painted during the first of his visits to the islands and is generally thought to have been the first of his many paintings depicting island women.

It depicts a woman wearing a blue dress against a background of yellow and red with stylised flowers. It can now be seen in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Answer: Paul Gauguin

Gauguin's "Tahitian Women on the Beach" was painted in 1891, during his first visit to Tahiti. It shows two native women sitting on a beach with the sea in the background. One is wearing native costume, while the other has a plain dress of the sort given to native women by Christian missionaries from France.

It is now part of the extensive collection of post-impressionist art in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

Answer: Paul Gauguin

"The Siesta" is another of Gauguin's paintings of Tahitian women and was completed in 1894. It shows a group of four women relaxing in the shade of a veranda on a hot afternoon, with a fifth woman in the background. The woman at the centre of the painting, who wears a straw hat and a pale blue blouse, is facing away from the viewer, thus emphasising the naturalistic nature of the composition.

It can be seen in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Answer: Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat (1859-91) is best known for his development of the painting style known as pointillism, which involves creating a picture using individual dots of paint applied to the canvas. The 1884 painting "Bathers at Asnières" is his first large-scale composition using this technique and was produced when he was only 24.

The picture shows a number of people relaxing by and in the River Seine. Although the scene is idyllic, the background depicts factories and smoking chimneys, placing the picture firmly in a contemporary landscape.

The picture can be seen in London's National Gallery.

Answer: Georges Seurat

"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" is generally regarded as Seurat's masterpiece, and is one of his largest pictures, measuring roughly 6 feet high and 10 feet wide. It depicts a crowded scene by the River Seine, where fashionable Parisians went to relax and socialise at the weekend. Strikingly, the figures in the foreground are in the shade, while the background is brightly lit by the sun.

The painting is held by the Art Institute of Chicago, although Seurat made many preliminary sketches and paintings which can be seen in other galleries around the world.