Auti te pape (Women at the River), from the Noa Noa Suite
spring/summer 1894
Medium
Wood-block print in black ink, over stenciled red ink and a yellow ink tone block, on cream wove paper (an imitation Japanese vellum)
Dimensions
Image: 20.8 × 37.7 cm (8 1/4 × 14 7/8 in.); Sheet: 25 × 39.7 cm (9 7/8 × 15 11/16 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159090
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 ...