Sketches of Figures, Pandanus Leaf, and Vanilla Plant
Paul Gauguin · 1891/93 · black fabricated chalk and watercolor on cream wove paper (removed from a sketchbook)
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Sketches of Figures, Pandanus Leaf, and Vanilla Plant is a public-domain drawing by Paul Gauguin, dated 1891/93. Black fabricated chalk and watercolor on cream wove paper (removed from a sketchbook). The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Sketches of Figures, Pandanus Leaf, and Vanilla Plant” (1891/93) is from Gauguin’s years away from Paris. The color is laid in broad areas, and the place, when it is named, is Brittany or the Pacific.
About the artist
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) left a career in finance and painted in Brittany, Martinique, and then Tahiti and the Marquesas. He used flat areas of color, learned in part from prints.
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