![Crouching Tahitian Woman (related to the painting Nafea faa ipoipo [When Will You Marry?]), Paul Gauguin, Public domain](/aic/51374.jpg)
Crouching Tahitian Woman (related to the painting Nafea faa ipoipo [When Will You Marry?])
Paul Gauguin · 1891/93 · Pastel over charcoal, selectively stumped, on cream wove paper (discolored to tan), squared in black chalk on cream wove paper (discolored to tan)
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Crouching Tahitian Woman (related to the painting Nafea faa ipoipo [When Will You Marry?]) is a public-domain drawing by Paul Gauguin, dated 1891/93. Pastel over charcoal, selectively stumped, on cream wove paper (discolored to tan), squared in black chalk on cream wove paper (discolored to tan). The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Crouching Tahitian Woman (related to the painting Nafea faa ipoipo [When Will You Marry?])” (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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