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Le Sourire

A work made of collotype and letterpress in black on various cream wove papers, contained within commercially printed cream textured paper wrapper.

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  • A work made of collotype and letterpress in black on various cream wove papers, contained within commercially printed cream textured paper wrapper.

Date:

1952

Artist:

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Paul Gauguin

Title

Le Sourire

Place

France (Artist's nationality)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1952

Medium

Collotype and letterpress in black on various cream wove papers, contained within commercially printed cream textured paper wrapper

Dimensions

Closed: 40.6 × 29.3 × 15 cm (16 × 11 9/16 × 5 15/16 in.); Open: 40.6 × 59.3 cm (16 × 23 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Marjorie Kreilick McNab

Reference Number

2015.568

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