Woman with Figs
Medium
Etching, lavis, and soft-ground etching on zinc, printed in green ink
Dimensions
10 1/2 x 17 7/16 in. (26.7 x 44.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
Accession Number
67.753.6
Tags
About the Artist
Paul Gauguin|Armand Séguin|Armand Séguin · 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 ...