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Man Playing Piano; Two Sheep [verso], Paul Gauguin, Public domain

Man Playing Piano; Two Sheep [verso]

Paul Gauguin · 1884-1888 · pen and brown ink and graphite on wove paper

Public domain

Open Access image from the National Gallery of Art, marked free for any use.

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About this picture

Man Playing Piano; Two Sheep [verso] is a public-domain drawing by Paul Gauguin, dated 1884-1888. Pen and brown ink and graphite on wove paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.

“Man Playing Piano; Two Sheep [verso]” (1884-1888) 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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