Tahitian Faces (Frontal View and Profiles)
Paul Gauguin
ca. 1899
Medium
Charcoal on laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 1/8 x 12 1/4 in. (41 x 31.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1996
Accession Number
1996.418
Tags
Women
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 ...