Noa Noa

Paul Gauguin, 1868

MEDIUMCollotype with letterpress, in black on cream wove papers, folded, with collotype in black with red on ivory laid paper and envelope, contained within cream wove paper wrapper with collotype in black
DIMENSIONSClosed: 41.3 × 28.3 × 0.6 cm (16 5/16 × 11 3/16 × 1/4 in.); Open: 41.3 × 57 cm (16 5/16 × 22 1/2 in.)
LOCATIONArt Institute of Chicago
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Paul Gauguin 1848–1903 · France

Paul Gauguin, the French Post-Impressionist, abandoned a stockbroker's life for art, famously seeking 'refuge from Western civilization' in Tahiti.

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