Mahna no varua ino (The Devil Speaks), from the Noa Noa Suite
1894
Medium
Wood-block print in black ink, with brush and pale orange wash, over stenciled yellow ink and a red ink tone block, on cream wove paper (an imitation Japanese vellum)
Dimensions
Image: 20.5 × 35.5 cm (8 1/8 × 14 in.); Sheet: 25.1 × 39.8 cm (9 15/16 × 15 11/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
198917
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 ...