Bust of a Young Breton Woman (Possibly Marie Lagadu)
Paul Gauguin
1886/88
Medium
Black fabricated chalk on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
30.3 × 31.3 cm (11 15/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113466
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 ...