Sketches of Children, a Woman, and Profiles (recto), Sketches of Horses and Child (verso)
1891/93
Medium
Graphite and blue gouache, with pen and pale yellow ink (originally purple) and watercolor (recto); graphite, over pen and pale yellow ink (originally purple) and watercolor (verso); on cream wove paper, discolored to tan (removed from a sketchbook)
Dimensions
32 × 21.7 cm (12 5/8 × 8 9/16 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159073
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 ...