Women, Animals, and Foliage
Paul Gauguin
1898
Medium
Woodcut printed in black ink on thin Japan paper
Dimensions
image: 6 3/8 x 11 3/16 in. (16.2 x 28.4 cm) sheet: 9 x 11 15/16 in. (22.8 x 30.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 2003
Accession Number
2003.446.3
Tags
AnimalsWomenLeavesTrees
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 ...