Noa Noa
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Medium
Collotype with letterpress, in black on cream wove papers, folded, with collotype in black with red on ivory laid paper and envelope, contained within cream wove paper wrapper with collotype in black
Dimensions
Closed: 41.3 × 28.3 × 0.6 cm (16 5/16 × 11 3/16 × 1/4 in.); Open: 41.3 × 57 cm (16 5/16 × 22 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
229686
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 ...