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Woman Picking Fruit and Oviri - Paul Gauguin

Woman Picking Fruit and Oviri - Paul Gauguin
Gift of the Print and Drawing Club

"Woman Picking Fruit and Oviri" by Paul Gauguin (1895/96)

Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, tipped on ivory wove paper, laid down on off-white wove plate paper with decorative plate marks.

Commentary

Commentary

"Woman Picking Fruit and Oviri" by Paul Gauguin, 1895/96. Medium: Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, tipped on ivory wove paper, laid down on off-white wove plate paper with decorative plate marks. This work is part of the source collection's Prints and Drawings collection. Gift of the Print and Drawing Club.

Commentary

Paul Gauguin: Paul Gauguin French, 1848-1903. Cultural context: France.

Commentary

Technical Details Classification: woodcut. Medium: Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, tipped on ivory wove paper, laid down on off-white wove plate paper with decorative plate marks. Dimensions: Image: 10.5 × 9 cm (4 3/16 × 3 9/16 in.); Sheet: 14.4 × 11.1 cm (5 11/16 × 4 3/8 in.). Subject tags: woodcut. View at the source collection: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/52990