Paul Gauguin

Te faruru (Here We Make Love), from the Noa Noa Suite

1893/94
Wood-block print, printed twice in golden-brown and black inks, with selective wiping of the black ink, over a selectively inked yellow tone block, and transferred deep-yellow, red, and orange oil-based media, some containing beeswax and conifer resin (probably pine resin), with hand-applied dark yellow and brown gouache, on cream Japanese paper (previously mounted on mottled blue wove paper laid down on cream wove card [a presentation mount])
35.7 × 20.5 cm (14.1 × 8.1 in)

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