L’univers est créé (The Universe Is Being Created), from the Noa Noa Suite

Provenance

Sold by Thomas W. Schreiner, New York, to the Art Institute, 1924.

L’univers est créé (The Universe Is Being Created), from the Noa Noa Suite

Paul Gauguin

1893–94, printed and published 1921

Accession Number

14335

Medium

Wood-block print in black ink on grayish-ivory China paper

Dimensions

Image: 20.5 × 35.5 cm (8 1/8 × 14 in.); Sheet: 26.9 × 42.6 cm (10 5/8 × 16 13/16 in.)

Classification

woodcut

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection