Parau Hina Tefatou (Words between Goddess of the Moon and God of the Earth)
1893/94
Medium
Brush and gray wash and pen and brown ink (originally purple, est.), with black fabricated chalk, on heavily textured ivory wove paper
Dimensions
34.2 × 24.8 cm (13 1/2 × 9 13/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159080
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 ...