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Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses (Love, and You Will Be Happy), from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

A work made of second-state impression laid down on first-state impression
wood-block print of second state in black ink on thin ivory japanese paper, laid down on wood-block print of first state in yellow ocher ink with traces of black ink on grayish-ivory wove paper (recto); wood-block print in black and yellow ocher ink and oxidized linseed oil (est.) on grayish-ivory wove paper (partial offset impression of the second state) (verso).
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  • A work made of second-state impression laid down on first-state impression
wood-block print of second state in black ink on thin ivory japanese paper, laid down on wood-block print of first state in yellow ocher ink with traces of black ink on grayish-ivory wove paper (recto); wood-block print in black and yellow ocher ink and oxidized linseed oil (est.) on grayish-ivory wove paper (partial offset impression of the second state) (verso).

Date:

1899

Artist:

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Paul Gauguin

Title

Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses (Love, and You Will Be Happy), from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1899

Medium

Second-state impression laid down on first-state impression Wood-block print of second state in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, laid down on wood-block print of first state in yellow ocher ink with traces of black ink on grayish-ivory wove paper (recto); wood-block print in black and yellow ocher ink and oxidized linseed oil (est.) on grayish-ivory wove paper (partial offset impression of the second state) (verso)

Dimensions

164 × 276 mm (image), 165 × 276 mm (primary/secondary support)

Credit Line

Gift of Edward McCormick Blair

Reference Number

2002.247

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