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Mahna no varua ino (The Devil Speaks), from the Noa Noa Suite

A work made of wood-block print in black ink, with brush and pale orange wash, over stenciled yellow ink and a red ink tone block, on cream wove paper (an imitation japanese vellum).
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  • A work made of wood-block print in black ink, with brush and pale orange wash, over stenciled yellow ink and a red ink tone block, on cream wove paper (an imitation japanese vellum).

Date:

1894

Artist:

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903)
printed in collaboration Louis Roy (French, 1862-1907)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Paul Gauguin

Title

Mahna no varua ino (The Devil Speaks), from the Noa Noa Suite

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1894

Medium

Wood-block print in black ink, with brush and pale orange wash, over stenciled yellow ink and a red ink tone block, on cream wove paper (an imitation Japanese vellum)

Dimensions

Image: 20.5 × 35.5 cm (8 1/8 × 14 in.); Sheet: 25.1 × 39.8 cm (9 15/16 × 15 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Marjorie Kreilick McNab

Reference Number

2009.175

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