Woman with Figs
1894, printed ca. 1963
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 3/4 × 20 3/8 in. (37.5 × 51.8 cm) Plate mark: 10 1/2 × 16 5/8 in. (26.7 × 42.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Hermina, Movses, Charles and David Allen Devrishian Fund, 2000
Accession Number
2000.610
Tags
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 ...