Auti Te Pape
Paul Gauguin
1893–94
Medium
Woodcut on china paper
Dimensions
8 1/16 x 14 in. (20.5 x 35.6 cm): block 10 1/2 x 16 7/8 in. (26.7 x 42.9): paper
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1921
Accession Number
21.38.6
Tags
Female NudesRivers
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 ...