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Paul Gauguin
1894
Medium
Wood-block print in black ink on cream wove Japanese paper, laid down on cream wove Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image/primary/secondary support: 20.4 × 11.7 cm (8 1/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63094
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 ...