DETAILS
- Artist
- Paul Sérusier
- Date
- 1885
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on glazed buff wove paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- Image: 23.6 × 11.6 cm (9 5/16 × 4 5/8 in.); Sheet: 37.8 × 27.8 cm (14 15/16 × 11 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- France
- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph R. Shapiro
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THE ARTIST
Paul Sérusier
Paul Sérusier, a pioneer of abstract art, famously painted "The Talisman" under Paul Gauguin's guidance, inspiring the avant-garde Nabis movement.
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