Decorated Wooden Box
Paul Gauguin
1884
Medium
Stained wood with iron, leather, and inlaid with two netsuke masks
Dimensions
22 × 14.8 × 51.5 cm (8 5/8 × 5 7/8 × 20 1/4 in.)
Classification
carving
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
229060
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 ...