Jean René Gauguin
Paul Gauguin · 1881 · Black fabricated chalk, red chalk, brush and brown wash, with pen and brown ink, on cream wove paper, with later additions in graphite
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Jean René Gauguin is a public-domain drawing by Paul Gauguin, dated 1881. Black fabricated chalk, red chalk, brush and brown wash, with pen and brown ink, on cream wove paper, with later additions in graphite. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Jean René Gauguin” (1881) 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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