About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Paul Gauguin
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Title
- Mahana atua (Day of the God)
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1894–1895
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Medium
- Wood-block print in black ink with touches of solvent-thinned blue, red, and orange watercolors (recto); wood-block print, printed twice in brown and brown-black ink (a maculature impression) (verso), on cream Japanese paper
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Inscriptions
- Monogrammed lower left, in plate: "PGO"; inscribed lower right, in plate: "Mahana Atua"
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Dimensions
- Image: 18 × 20.3 cm (7 1/8 × 8 in.); Sheet: 18.4 × 20.5 cm (7 1/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
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Reference Number
- 1948.267
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/63074/manifest.json