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Projet d’assiette (Leda) (Design for a Plate [Leda]), frontispiece from the Volpini Suite

A work made of zincograph in black, with pale orange, red and green watercolor and white crayon, on chrome yellow wove paper.
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  • A work made of zincograph in black, with pale orange, red and green watercolor and white crayon, on chrome yellow wove paper.

Date:

1889

Artist:

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Paul Gauguin

Title

Projet d’assiette (Leda) (Design for a Plate [Leda]), frontispiece from the Volpini Suite

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1889

Medium

Zincograph in black, with pale orange, red and green watercolor and white crayon, on chrome yellow wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed recto, below image, in pen and brown ink: "Dessins Lithographiques / Paul Gauguin"; signed in plate, upper right, printed in black ink: "homis soit qui mal y pense PGO [in reverse]"; inscribed in plate, below image, printed in black ink: "Projet d’asiet en 89"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "43.1021A / R8013"

Dimensions

Image: 21.7 × 20.5 cm (8 9/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 30.4 × 26 cm (12 × 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment

Reference Number

1943.1021a

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