Woman Picking Fruit and Oviri
1895/96
Medium
Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, laid down on thin ivory Japanese paper (a modern mount)
Dimensions
Image: 10.5 × 9 cm (4 3/16 × 3 9/16 in.); Sheet: 15.3 × 11.2 cm (6 1/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159100
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 ...