Seated Figure and a Cow; Three Studies of a Child's Head
Paul Gauguin · 1884-1888 · graphite, pen and brown ink on end papers of sketchbook cover
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About this picture
Seated Figure and a Cow; Three Studies of a Child's Head is a public-domain drawing by Paul Gauguin, dated 1884-1888. Graphite, pen and brown ink on end papers of sketchbook cover. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Seated Figure and a Cow; Three Studies of a Child's Head” (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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