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Seated Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Roosters and Chickens (verso)

A work made of black fabricated chalk, selectively blended, with touches of brush and gray gouache, over traces of black fabricated chalk offset (recto); graphite (verso); on ivory wove paper (removed from a sketchbook).
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  • A work made of black fabricated chalk, selectively blended, with touches of brush and gray gouache, over traces of black fabricated chalk offset (recto); graphite (verso); on ivory wove paper (removed from a sketchbook).

Date:

1891/93

Artist:

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Paul Gauguin

Title

Seated Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Roosters and Chickens (verso)

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1891–1893

Medium

Black fabricated chalk, selectively blended, with touches of brush and gray gouache, over traces of black fabricated chalk offset (recto); graphite (verso); on ivory wove paper (removed from a sketchbook)

Dimensions

17.8 × 27.3 cm (7 1/16 × 10 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel P. Avery Fund

Reference Number

1943.521

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