Cleveland Museum of Art
The Woman with Figs
Paul GauguinLinkedCulture matchlcp-94636c6a62fb
- Date
- 1894, printed 1899
- Medium
- Etching and soft-ground with open bite and selective wiping, printed in green-black ink
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 693411
What the image shows
A figure in a dark outfit leans over a table with various objects on it.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The Woman with Figs is one of only two etchings created by Gauguin and was made in collaboration with his friend Armand Séguin, whose address is inscribed in the upper left of the print. Inexperienced with the medium of etching, Gauguin likely drew the composition himself but relied on his friend to help him with the more technically complex aspects of the process such as laying the ground and biting the plate. The woman depicted in this print is likely Madeleine Bernard, the sister of Gauguin’s close friend Emile Bernard.
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- Credit line
- Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund
- Provenance
- Private Collection, United States | ?–2025: (Agnew's Works on Paper, Brussels, Belgium, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) | June 9, 2025–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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