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L’univers est créé (The Universe Is Being Created), from the Noa Noa Suite

A work made of wood-block print in black ink on grayish-ivory china paper.
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  • A work made of wood-block print in black ink on grayish-ivory china paper.

Date:

1893–94, printed and published 1921

Artist:

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903)
printed by Pola Gauguin (Danish, born France, 1883-1961)
published by Christian Cato, Copenhagen

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Paul Gauguin

Title

L’univers est créé (The Universe Is Being Created), from the Noa Noa Suite

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1893–1894

Medium

Wood-block print in black ink on grayish-ivory China paper

Inscriptions

Monogrammed in image: "P G O"; inscribed lower left, in graphite: "Paul Gauguin fait"; lower right, in graphite: "Pola Gauguin imp."

Dimensions

Image: 20.5 × 35.5 cm (8 1/8 × 14 in.); Sheet: 26.9 × 42.6 cm (10 5/8 × 16 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection

Reference Number

1924.1203

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