Man with an Ax

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Paul Gauguin

Title

Man with an Ax

Place

France (Artist's nationality)

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Made 1893–1894

Medium

Pen and black ink, and brush and black wash, with pen and brown ink (originally purple) and touches of graphite, on heavily textured ivory wove paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower center, in graphite: "2"

Dimensions

35.1 × 25.1 cm (13 7/8 × 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

2012.81

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