Te Atua (The Gods) Small Plate [recto]
Paul Gauguin
in or after 1895
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Medium
woodcut in black on very thin Japan paper, mounted face down
Dimensions
image: 24.1 x 22.9 cm (9 1/2 x 9 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.4608.a
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 ...