Breton Peasants
Paul Gauguin
1894
Medium
Brush and black ink on cream wove paper
Dimensions
21.7 × 24.7 cm (8 9/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
Classification
ink
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159653
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 ...