Women, Animals, and Foliage, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints
1898/99
Medium
Wood-block print in black ink on thin laid ivory Japanese paper, laid down on thin wove white Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.3 × 30.5 cm (6 7/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Primary support: 22.8 × 30.5 cm (9 × 12 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 23.7 × 31.8 cm (9 3/8 × 12 9/16 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159104
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 ...