Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses (Love, and You Will Be Happy), from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints
Paul Gauguin
1899
Medium
Wood-block print in dark-orange (burnt sienna) ink on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.4 × 27.7 cm (6 1/2 × 10 15/16 in.); Sheet: 18.4 × 29.7 cm (7 1/4 × 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84393
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 ...