Pape moe
1893/94
Medium
Watercolor, with black fabricated chalk, pen and brown ink (originally purple) and touches of brush and black ink on heavily textured ivory wove paper
Dimensions
35.4 × 25.5 cm (13 15/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
86308
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 ...