Paul Gauguin. Manao tupapau (Watched by the Spirits of the Dead), state IV, from the suite Noa Noa (Fragrant Scent)

Paul Gauguin

Manao tupapau (Watched by the Spirits of the Dead), state IV, from the suite Noa Noa (Fragrant Scent)

1893–94

Woodcut

Not on view

Medium Woodcut
Dimensions composition: 7 15/16 × 13 15/16" (20.2 × 35.4 cm); sheet: 8 1/8 × 14 1/16" (20.6 × 35.7 cm)
Printer Paul Gauguin
Edition approx. 5 proofs
Credit The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints, Richard S. Zeisler Bequest (by exchange), The Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Endowment, and Andreas Halvorsen
Object number 587.2016
Department Drawings and Prints

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Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin

French, 1848–1903 35 works online

Along with his contemporaries Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne , Paul Gauguin was a pioneer of modernist art. His use of expressive colors, flat planes, and simplified, distorted forms in paintings, as well as a rough, semi-abstract aesthetic in sculptures and woodcuts , exerted a profound influence on avant-garde artists in the early 20th century, from Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso to the German Expressionists .

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