Chez les Maories: Sauvageries (At Home with the Maori: Savage Things)
1893
Medium
Watercolor, with traces of black crayon and graphite, on tapa, partially laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Closed: 32.8 × 26.5 cm (12 15/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Open: 32.8 × 53 cm (12 15/16 × 20 7/8 in.)
Classification
gouache
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
137123
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 ...