1893-1894
Te Atua (God)
Paul GauguinFrench, 1848 - 1903
Back in Paris from his first trip to Tahiti, in 1893–94 Gauguin created a series of rough-hewn woodcuts that replicated the exotic subject matter of the paintings that he made while away. Here the woodblock has been double-printed slightly off-register, a technique Gauguin used to heighten the mystery of his imagery.
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