Design for a Fan Featuring a Landscape and a Statue of the Goddess Hina
1900/03
Medium
Watercolor and gouache, with touches of pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on cream Japanese paper (pieced), laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Primary and secondary supports: 20.8 × 41.7 cm (8 1/4 × 16 7/16 in.)
Classification
gouache
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159070
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 ...