Paul Gauguin

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

1893–94
Wood-block print, printed in black ink with traces of residual brown ink, with selective wiping, over solvent-thinned and transferred and stenciled yellow, orange, red, blue, and green oil-based media, some containing beeswax and conifer resin (probably pine resin), with touches of brush and black ink, on medium-weight, smooth, pink wove paper (faded to tan)
20.3 × 35 cm (8 × 13.8 in)

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