Plate with the Head of a Horned Devil, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints
1898/99
Medium
Wood-block print, printed twice in black over pale yellow ocher ink, on thin ivory Japanese paper, partially laid down on white two-ply mat board
Dimensions
Image: 15.4 × 29.5 cm (6 1/8 × 11 5/8 in.); Sheet/secondary support: 19.2 × 29.9 cm (7 9/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52994
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 ...