Les cigales et les fourmis (The Grasshoppers and the Ants), from the Volpini Suite
1889
Medium
Zincograph in black on chrome yellow wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.6 × 26.1 cm (8 9/16 × 10 5/16 in.); Plate, approx: 21.9 × 29.3 cm (8 5/8 × 11 9/16 in.); Sheet: 49.8 × 64.9 cm (19 5/8 × 25 9/16 in.)
Classification
zincograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48758
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 ...