Paul Gauguin

Parau Hina Tefatou (Words between Goddess of the Moon and God of the Earth)

1893/94
Brush and gray wash and pen and brown ink (originally purple, est.), with black fabricated chalk, on heavily textured ivory wove paper
34.2 × 24.8 cm (13.5 × 9.8 in)

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