Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé
Paul Gauguin
1891
Medium
etching
Dimensions
7 3/16 x 5 11/16 in. (18.3 x 14.4 cm): plate 12 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. (32.1 x 24.1 cm): paper
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936
Accession Number
36.11.10
Tags
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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 ...