Hail Mary (Ia Orana Maria)

Paul Gauguin

ca. 1893–95

Hail Mary (Ia Orana Maria) by Paul Gauguin

Medium

Fabricated charcoal, red chalk, and white pastel on formerly blue wove paper, mounted on millboard with strips of rose-colored wove paper along two edges

Dimensions

23 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. (59.7 x 37.5 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Loula D. Lasker, New York City, 1961

Accession Number

61.145.2

Tags

InfantsWomen

About the Artist

Paul Gauguin · 18481903

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 ...

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