Te Po
Paul Gauguin
1893–94
Medium
Woodcut, state II
Dimensions
block: 8 x 14 1/16 in. (20.3 x 35.7 cm) sheet: 10 3/4 x 16 5/8in. (27.3 x 42.2cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1921
Accession Number
21.38.2
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 ...