Pape moe
Paul Gauguin · 1893/94 · Watercolor, with black fabricated chalk, pen and brown ink (originally purple) and touches of brush and black ink on heavily textured ivory wove paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Pape moe is a public-domain drawing by Paul Gauguin, dated 1893/94. Watercolor, with black fabricated chalk, pen and brown ink (originally purple) and touches of brush and black ink on heavily textured ivory wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Pape moe” (1893/94) 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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