Delightful Land
1893–94
Medium
woodcut printed in color on wove paper, lined in silk
Dimensions
13 3/4 x 8 in. (34.9 x 20.3 cm) block 18 3/4 x 10 11/16 in. (47.6 x 27.2 cm) paper
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936
Accession Number
36.6.4
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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 ...