Caricatures of Gauguin and Governor Gallet, with headpiece from Le sourire
1900
Medium
Watercolor, with black colored pencil, and touches of pen and black ink, over a transfer drawing in black, and wood-block print in black ink with blue watercolor on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 29.8 × 20.4 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.); Headpiece: 9.8 × 16.4 cm (3 7/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
66094
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 ...