Seated Tahitian Youth
1894/1903
Medium
Watercolor and graphite on irregularly shaped cream wove Japanese paper, laid down on ivory laid paper with brown and blue fibers, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
237 × 157 mm (primary support); 352 × 227 (secondary support); 451 × 312 (tertiary support)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
5515
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 ...