At the Black Rocks (Aux roches noires)
Paul Gauguin
in or after 1895
Medium
woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 10.1 x 18.4 cm (4 x 7 1/4 in.) sheet: 13.1 x 23.8 cm (5 3/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1952.8.233
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 ...