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A Horse and Birds, headpiece for Le sourire by Paul Gauguin — VisualArtsDB

A Horse and Birds, headpiece for Le sourire

A Horse and Birds, headpiece for Le sourire

1899

Medium: Wood-block print in black ink on mottled gray-blue wove paper, laid down on buff wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 14.2 × 22.1 cm (5 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 16.8 × 24.5 cm (6 5/8 × 9 11/16 in.)
Genre: woodcut
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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