Man with an Ax
Paul Gauguin · 1891/93 · Thinned gouache, with pen and black ink, over pen and brown ink, on cream wove paper (discolored to tan), laid down on cream Japanese paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Man with an Ax is a public-domain drawing by Paul Gauguin, dated 1891/93. Thinned gouache, with pen and black ink, over pen and brown ink, on cream wove paper (discolored to tan), laid down on cream Japanese paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Man with an Ax” (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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