Two Standing Tahitian Women
1894
Medium
Black ink monotype from a glass matrix, over watercolor monotype from a paper matrix, with touches of metallic oil-based media, on thin cream Japanese paper laid down on cream wove paper (an imitation Japanese vellum)
Dimensions
Primary/secondary support: 26 × 19.9 cm (10 1/4 × 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159086
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 ...