Volpini Suite: Women Washing Clothes (verso)
Medium
zincograph on yellow paper
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust
Accession Number
2008.149.b
Tags
About this artwork
In 1893, Paul Gauguin returned to Paris from time spent in Tahiti. He began to conceive of a book that would describe his life outside Europe and provide context for the avant-garde works he created while away. This print is one of a series of ten intended to illustrate this book, which Gauguin titled Noa Noa. He carved each image roughly into a woodblock and printed them himself, giving the prints a rough quality that he hoped would enhance their subject matter. Because of this process, combine...