Arearea no Varua Ino (Words of the Devil) [recto]
1894
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Medium
watercolor monotype on Japan paper, mounted to tan cardboard on whose verso is a fragment of another print
Dimensions
sheet: 24.4 x 16.6 cm (9 5/8 x 6 9/16 in.) support: 33.4 x 22.7 cm (13 1/8 x 8 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.9078.a
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 ...