Be in Love and You will be Happy (Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses)
Paul Gauguin
1898-1899
Medium
woodcut in light brown and black on chine collé
Dimensions
image: 16 × 27.3 cm (6 5/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.16.71
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 ...