Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé
Paul Gauguin
1891, printed 1919
Medium
Etching, drypoint and engraving in brown-black on cream Japanese laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 18.3 × 14.5 cm (7 1/4 × 5 3/4 in.); Sheet: 33 × 24 cm (13 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
21078
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 ...