Two Figures (related to the painting Tahitian Landscape)
Paul Gauguin
1891/93
Medium
Black chalk, with touches of watercolor and watercolor offset on cream wove paper
Dimensions
35.2 × 36.9 cm (13 7/8 × 14 9/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
192263
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 ...