Tahitian Series: The Smile
Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) · 1893–94 · woodcut
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About this picture
Tahitian Series: The Smile is a CC0 illustration by Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903), dated 1893–94. Woodcut. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Tahitian Series: The Smile” (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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