Projet d’assiette (Leda) (Design for a Plate [Leda]), frontispiece from the Volpini Suite
1889
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Medium
Zincograph in black, with pale orange, red and green watercolor and white crayon, on chrome yellow wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.7 × 20.5 cm (8 9/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 30.4 × 26 cm (12 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
zincograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48755
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 ...