Maruru (Thank You)
Paul Gauguin
1894, printed 1941
Medium
woodcut on coated wove paper
Dimensions
image: 20.2 x 35.4 cm (7 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.) block: 28.9 x 40.2 cm (11 3/8 x 15 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Evelyn Stefansson Nef
Accession Number
2004.55.1
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 ...