Memory of Meijer de Haan
Paul Gauguin
1896/97
Medium
Wood-block print printed twice in black and brown ink, with dry brush and gray and ocher watercolor, on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image/sheet: 10.6 × 8.1 cm (4 3/16 × 3 1/4 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
76707
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 ...