Te Atua (The Gods) Small Plate
Paul Gauguin · 1898-1899 · two laminated woodcuts on Japanese paper, double-mounted on wove paper
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About this picture
Te Atua (The Gods) Small Plate is a public-domain illustration by Paul Gauguin, dated 1898-1899. Two laminated woodcuts on Japanese paper, double-mounted on wove paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Te Atua (The Gods) Small Plate” (1898-1899) 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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