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Le Sourire by Paul Gauguin — VisualArtsDB

Le Sourire

Le Sourire

1952

Medium: Collotype and letterpress in black on various cream wove papers, contained within commercially printed cream textured paper wrapper
Dimensions: Closed: 40.6 × 29.3 × 15 cm (16 × 11 9/16 × 5 15/16 in.); Open: 40.6 × 59.3 cm (16 × 23 3/8 in.)
Genre: print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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