L'Univers est crée (The Creation of the Universe)
Paul Gauguin
1894, printed 1921
Medium
woodcut on China paper
Dimensions
image: 20.4 × 35.4 cm (8 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.) sheet: 26 × 43.2 cm (10 1/4 × 17 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1944.2.25.7
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 ...