Portrait of the Artist’s Mother (Eve)
Paul Gauguin
1889/90
Medium
Gouache, over a white ground, on gray millboard
Dimensions
17 × 13 cm (6 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.)
Classification
gouache
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159069
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 ...