Sketches of Tahitian Residence with Color Notations and Dogs
Paul Gauguin
1891/93
Medium
Black fabricated chalk, with black fabricated chalk offset, on cream wove paper (removed from a sketchbook)
Dimensions
31.3 × 20.1 cm (12 3/8 × 7 15/16 in.)
Classification
crayon
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113719
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 ...