Le sourire: Journal sérieux, Nov. 1899
1899
Medium
Mimeograph in brownish-black ink, with wood-block prints in black ink on cream wove paper
Dimensions
397 × 513 mm (full sheet); 397 × 256 mm (folded sheet); 24 × 94 mm (title block), 105 × 187 mm (headpiece)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
110849
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 ...