A Horse and Birds, headpiece for Le sourire
Paul Gauguin
1899
Medium
Wood-block print in black ink on mottled gray-blue wove paper, laid down on buff wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 14.2 × 22.1 cm (5 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 16.8 × 24.5 cm (6 5/8 × 9 11/16 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159101
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 ...