Ia orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin
1894/95, published Mar. 1895
Medium
Transfer zincograph on coarse-grained transfer paper, in dark-blue ink on thin ivory wove paper (an imitation Japanese vellum)
Dimensions
38 × 28.2 cm (15 × 11 1/8 in.)
Classification
zincograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159109
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 ...