1959 After Paul Gauguin "Tahitian Woman", Small Vintage Hungarian Full-Color Print

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An excellent small vintage full-color print after watercolor painting "Tahitian Woman" by Paul Gauguin (1848, Paris –1903, Marquesas Islands), one … Read more An excellent small vintage full-color print after watercolor painting "Tahitian Woman" by Paul Gauguin (1848, Paris –1903, Marquesas Islands), one of the most influential artists in the history of modern painting. Comes from a rare art folio published in Budapest in 1959. Printed on one side of high quality heavy paper. Artist name on back is related to another piece in the folio. Excellent condition - minor edge wear, never framed.

Image 6.5"W x 6"H

Paul Gauguin styled himself and his art as “savage.” Although he began his artistic career with the Impressionists in Paris, during the late 1880s he fled farther and farther from urban civilization in search of an edenic paradise where he could create pure, “primitive” art. Yet his self-imposed exile to the South Seas was not so much an escape from Paris as a bid to become the new leader of the Parisian avant-garde. Gauguin cultivated and inhabited a dual image of himself as, on the one hand, a wolfish wild man and on the other, a sensitive martyr for art. His notoriety helped to promote his astonishing work, which freed color from mimetic representation and distorted form for expressive purposes. Gauguin pioneered the Symbolist art movement in France and set the stage for Fauvism and Expressionism. See less