Seated Tahitian Woman (recto); Standing Tahitian Woman (verso)
1891/93
Medium
Pen and brown ink (originally purple, est.), with graphite, on cream wove paper (recto); pen and brown ink (originally purple, est.), with traces of graphite, on cream wove paper; removed from a sketchbook and trimmed
Dimensions
17.9 × 15.8 cm (7 1/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159077
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 ...