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Two Title Pages for "Le Sourire" (Les deux titres du Sourire) [verso], Paul Gauguin, Public domain

Two Title Pages for "Le Sourire" (Les deux titres du Sourire) [verso]

Paul Gauguin · 1899 · boxwood woodcut block

Public domain

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About this picture

Two Title Pages for "Le Sourire" (Les deux titres du Sourire) [verso] is a public-domain illustration by Paul Gauguin, dated 1899. Boxwood woodcut block. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.

“Two Title Pages for "Le Sourire" (Les deux titres du Sourire) [verso]” (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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