Mahana Atua (Day of the Gods)
Paul Gauguin
1894, printed 1921
Medium
woodcut on China paper
Dimensions
image: 18.2 × 20.3 cm (7 3/16 × 8 in.) sheet: 26.3 × 42.8 cm (10 3/8 × 16 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.4606
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 ...