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Tahitian Shore [recto]
Paul Gauguin · c. 1900 · traced monotype in warm black and brown on off-white wove paper
Public domain
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About this picture
Tahitian Shore [recto] is a public-domain illustration by Paul Gauguin, dated c. 1900. Traced monotype in warm black and brown on off-white wove paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Tahitian Shore [recto]” (c. 1900) 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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