Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé
Paul Gauguin
1891
Medium
Etching, with drypoint and engraving, in black, with pen and black and brown ink, and brush and black and gray wash, on cream wove paper
Dimensions
14.9 × 11.5 cm (5 7/8 × 4 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
180662
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 ...