Paul Gauguin

Nativity (Mother and Child Surrounded by Five Figures)

c. 1902
Transfer drawing in brown and black ink (recto) and graphite and red chalk (verso) on cream wove paper trimmed and perimeter mounted on cream laid paper
24.4 × 22.1 cm (9.6 × 8.7 in)

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