Mahana atua (Day of the God)
Paul Gauguin
1894/95, printed and published 1921
Medium
Wood-block print in black ink on grayish-ivory China paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.2 × 20.3 cm (7 3/16 × 8 in.); Sheet: 26.7 × 42.9 cm (10 9/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
14314
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 ...