Breton Women by a Gate, from the Volpini Suite
1889
Medium
Zincograph in black on chrome yellow wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 17 × 21.5 cm (6 3/4 × 8 1/2 in.); Plate, approx: 20.3 × 29.6 cm (8 × 11 11/16 in.); Sheet: 49.8 × 64.9 cm (19 5/8 × 25 9/16 in.)
Classification
zincograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48782
Art Historical Context
**Breton Women by a Gate, from the Volpini** Paul Gauguin, 1889 Zincograph in black on chrome yellow w paper Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings Department Step into the rustic charm of late 19th-century Brittany with Paul Gauguin's *Breton Women by a*, a captivating zincograph from his innovative Volpini Suite. in 1889 amid the buzz of Paris's Exposition Universelle, this print two women in traditional attire framed by a weathered gate, evoking the simplicity and mystery of rural life. Gauguin, a pioneering Post-Impressionist and Symbolist, drew from his time in Pont-Aven, ...
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 ...