Joies de Bretagne (Joys of Brittany), from the Volpini Suite
1889
Medium
Zincograph in black on chrome yellow wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.2 × 24.1 cm (8 × 9 1/2 in.); Plate, approx: 21.4 × 29.6 cm (8 7/16 × 11 11/16 in.); Sheet: 50 × 65.1 cm (19 11/16 × 25 11/16 in.)
Classification
zincograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48774
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 ...