A Fisherman Drinking Beside His Canoe
1894
Medium
Wood-block print in black ink on tan wove paper (recto); wood-block print in black ink, over stencil-applied red and yellow ink, on cream wove paper (verso)
Dimensions
Image: 20.5 × 13.8 cm (8 1/8 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 20.7 × 14 cm (8 3/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63082
About the Artist
Paul Gauguin · 1848–1903
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose bold experiments with color, form, and subject matter made him one of the most influential figures in the transition from 19th-century art to modernism. His rejection of European civilization for the perceived authenticity of 'primitive' cultures established an archetype of artistic exile that continues to resonate. Gauguin's ...