Two Maori Women Squatting Down
Paul Gauguin
1894/95, published Feb. 3, 1895
Medium
Zincograph in black ink on cream wove paper
Dimensions
28 × 38 cm (11 1/16 × 15 in.)
Classification
zincograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159110
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 ...