The Woman with Figs
Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) · 1894, printed 1899 · Etching and soft-ground with open bite and selective wiping, printed in green-black ink
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About this picture
The Woman with Figs is a CC0 illustration by Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903), dated 1894, printed 1899. Etching and soft-ground with open bite and selective wiping, printed in green-black ink. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“The Woman with Figs” (1894, printed 1899) 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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