Head of a Tahitian Woman
Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) · 1891 · graphite with stumping and graphite wash on parchment
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CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication by the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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About this picture
Head of a Tahitian Woman is a CC0 drawing by Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903), dated 1891. Graphite with stumping and graphite wash on parchment. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Head of a Tahitian Woman” (1891) 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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