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Head of a Tahitian Woman, 1891. graphite with stumping and graphite wash on parchment.
graphite with stumping and graphite wash on parchment · Sheet: 30.5 x 24.4 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Head of a Tahitian Woman
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- graphite with stumping and graphite wash on parchment
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 30.5 x 24.4 cm (12 x 9 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1848–1903
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.