Mahna no Varua Ino (The Devil Speaks)
Paul Gauguin
1894
Medium
color woodcut on Japan paper
Dimensions
image: 20.2 × 35.5 cm (7 15/16 × 14 in.) sheet: 24.9 × 39.9 cm (9 13/16 × 15 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.17.81
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 ...