Human Misery (Misères humaines)
Paul Gauguin · 1898-1899 · woodcut on Japan paper, perimeter mounted
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About this picture
Human Misery (Misères humaines) is a public-domain illustration by Paul Gauguin, dated 1898-1899. Woodcut on Japan paper, perimeter mounted. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Human Misery (Misères humaines)” (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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