Sketches of Seated Figures and Chickens (recto), Nude Female Torso (related to the painting Te a no areois [The Seed of the Areoi]) (verso), from the Carnet de Tahiti (Tahitian sketchbook)
Paul Gauguin
1891/93
![Sketches of Seated Figures and Chickens (recto), Nude Female Torso (related to the painting Te a no areois [The Seed of the Areoi]) (verso), from the Carnet de Tahiti (Tahitian sketchbook) by Paul Gauguin](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/aic/thumb/sketches-of-seated-figures-and-chickens-recto-aic-113796.webp)
Medium
Graphite (recto); graphite with traces of green watercolor offset (verso); on cream wove paper (removed from a sketchbook)
Dimensions
10.8 × 16.7 cm (4 5/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113796
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 ...