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La Femme aux figues [Woman with Figs]
La Femme aux figues [Woman with Figs]

La Femme aux figues [Woman with Figs]

Primary (Paris, France, 1848–Atuona, French Polynesia, 1903)
Primary (Brittany, France, 1869–Chateauneuf-du-Faou, France, 1903)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1894-1895
MediumEtching printed in green with wiped tone
DimensionsSheet: 17 3/8 × 24 in. (44.2 × 61 cm)
Additional Dimension: 10 5/8 × 17 5/16 in. (27 × 44 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Purchase through the generosity of the Still Water Foundation and Tom Rassieur, 1996.152
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1996.152
On View
Not on view
Label Text
Better known for his woodcuts, Gauguin produced precious few etchings. This sheet, in fact, had once been attributed to fellow symbolist Armand Séguin. Gauguin's interests lay in the primitive and his approach to the medium is deliberately coarse to reflect those interests. Broadly cut, strongly bitten and awkwardly composed, Gauguin comments on the decadence of modern society, the fig a symbol of over indulgence and corruption.
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