Seated Female (related to the painting Sister of Charity)
Paul Gauguin
c. 1902
Medium
Transfer drawing in black ink on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
14.1 × 21.9 cm (5 9/16 × 8 5/8 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159084
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 ...